Running head: CROWDSOURCING 1 Crowdsourcing Name Course University Affiliation Instructor Date of Submission CROWDSOURCING 2 Crowdsourcing The term crowdsourcing is a current term that was first coined in June 2006 by Jeff Howe and Mack Robinson in an article. The present definition of crowdsourcing is that put forward by Jeff Howe who defined it as the item of the company giving the task to be performed by unknown network of people in online (Howe, 2006b). Thereafter other provision to crowdsourcing was added by Howe who said that outsourcing entails some forms of giving to a group of crowd workers to perform a certain task. Initial crowdsourcing task includes computing activities such as writing some software codes or removing errors from certain program. Many computing task are being carried out today in crowdsourcing websites especially in business sectors. The development of crowdsourcing in design started with the invention of internet services. As businesses develop and become more complex it requires extra labor and resource to ensure that all the process in the company are done in a smooth way. Traditional methods of where complex task was assigned to an individual to perform the task did not work. Companies did not get enough profits due to poor services that were entirely depended on an expert in the company. Customers were not well satisfied due to long time that they had to wait to get their needs to be done. Due to this, there was a need to come up with a ...
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