History
Crowdsourcing systems are used to accomplish a variety of tasks. For example, the crowd may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task (also known as community-based design or distributed participatory design), refine or carry out the steps of an algorithm (see human-based computation), or help capture, systematize, or analyze large amounts of data (see also citizen science).
The term "crowdsourcing" is a portmanteau of "crowd" and "outsourcing," coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article "The Rise of Crowdsourcing".
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