Using requested labor, services, solutions, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from people, typically online and geographically dispersed
Cybersecurity is a fast growing sector, expected to be worth over $345 billion by 2026. With higher levels of remote working among office workers, hackers have been keen to exploit the relatively low security of residential internet connections as entry routes to...
The need for cybersecurity has grown exponentially, which has been a boost for providers such as Bugcrowd. Bugcrowd was the first of what is now a number of firms who engage crowds of “ethical hackers” on a freelance/gig economy basis. The key aim through...
Our ability to communicate with many minds on a mass scale has made it a lot easier to turn to large groups of people to provide us with solutions to challenging issues, to deliver innovative new ideas, or give their feedback on our own ones. Turning a question or a...
The emergence of digital labour platforms is one of the most prominent transformations in the world of work during the past decade. The influence of microtask work platforms on the future of work will only grow stronger whether people are looking for additional...
Speech recognition technology is a form of AI. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) enables machines to register a set of words they hear used in spoken language, match them to a text transcription, and then search multiple transcribed possible responses for the best...
A wide range of industry sectors are using speech technology, helping people to save time, improve effectiveness and efficiency, and ultimately even save lives. Key sectors where advances are being made include consumer durables, automotive, healthcare, banking and...
Google is running closed beta testing for its own new app called “Task Mate.” It asks users to perform simple tasks in exchange for a payment that can be cashed out in local currency. The Task Mate app is currently available on an invitation-only basis in India and...
A wide range of ecological projects based on crowdsourced Citizen Science models are now being undertaken around the world, at local, national and international scales. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, established in 1976, has been running for decades though its...
The threat of cyber-attacks has risen in the current COVID-19 pandemic, with many company employees working remotely and outside centralised company security systems. Now even small companies need access to experts in cybersecurity and penetration testing on an urgent...
Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds, the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business...
AI technology is increasingly used to open up new horizons for scientists and researchers. It enables analysis of masses of data much faster than humans can manage, identifies deep trends and patterns that could be indiscernible to human analysts, and can better keep...
This is our theme for Crowdsourcing Week in 2020: BOLD // Crowd 2.0 powered by AI and Machine Learning. It’s where crowdsourcing takes a major transformative step rather than a series of incremental ones. At the same time as recognizing crowdsourcing as a business...