Crowdsourcing: ideas from the masses

Crowdsourcing refers to the outsourcing of tasks, problem solving or idea generation to a large group of people - usually via the internet. Companies, organisations or individuals use the "swarm intelligence" of the crowd to obtain a wide range of contributions, for example for design proposals, translations, innovations or data analyses. Well-known platforms for crowdsourcing include Wikipedia, Kickstarter and Amazon Mechanical Turk.