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What is Crowdsourcing?

Crowdsourcing is when a group of people provides free information, skills and overall value for a project or goal.

Examples of Crowdsourcing

Examples of crowdsourced projects are

  • Wikipedia: anyone can add information to the articles
  • Waze: the app uses data from all of its users to give real time information back to them
  • and LEGO Design byME: LEGO lovers could upload and order their own digital creations, from which the best ones even went into mass-production

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