Crowdsourcing as defined by Wikipedia is “the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from a community online, rather than traditional employees or employees. suppliers. This process is often used to subdivide tedious work or to raise funds for startups and charities, and can also take place offline. It combines the efforts of many self-identified volunteers or part-time workers, where each contributor on their own initiative adds a small part to the overall result. The term “crowdsourcing” is a portmanteau of “crowd” and “outsourcing”; it differs from outsourcing in that work comes from an undefined audience rather than being commissioned to a specific, named group. (Wikipedia 05/04/2014). The definition is refined by Jeff Howe of Wired magazine as follows: "Simply defined, crowdsourcing represents the act of a company or institution taking a function formerly performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined network ( and generally vast) of people in the world. form of an open call. This can take the form of peer production (where work is done collaboratively), but it is also undertaken by individual individuals. The crucial prerequisite is the use of the open call format and the extensive network of potential workers. (Brabham 76) Jeff Howe is believed to later clarify in his definition what is not included in the Wikipedia definition: "it is only crowdsourcing once a company takes this model, the manufactures in large quantities and sells it. (Brabham 76) Howe's clarification might have been accurate in the classic sense in 2006, but nonprofits have also used crowdsourcing to solve problems middle of paper...... Daniel Veit. “More Than Fun and Money. Worker Motivation in Crowdsourcing – A Study on Mechanical Turk.” Proceedings of the Seventh Americas Conference on Information Systems (2011): 1-11. Web.5. Naroditskiy, Victor, Nicholas R. Jennings, Pascal Van Hentenryck and Manuel Cebrian. “Crowdsourcing Delimma.” National Information and Communications Technology University of Southampton Australia (2014): 1-15. Web.6. Schenk, Eric and Claude Guittard. “Crowdsourcing: what can be outsourced to the public and why? » Higher School of Science and Technology of the University of Strasbourg (2009): 1-29. Web.7. Thomas, Stuart. “9 examples of crowdsourcing, before the existence of “crowdsourcing”. Memory burn. Np, September 15, 2011. Web. May 4, 2014.8. Youden, Diane, Jean Lee and Justin Angsuwat. “Harnessing the power of crowdsourcing.” PWC Advisory People and Change (summer 2011): 1-8. W