Crowd Tasks

Using requested labor, services, solutions, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from people, typically online and geographically dispersed

Ethical Crowdsourcing - Crowdsourcing Week

Ethical Crowdsourcing

Employers would do well to remember that when using crowdsourcing to complete tasks or solve problems, there are ethical considerations to bear in mind.

Top 5 Crowd Testing Platforms - Crowdsourcing Week

Top 5 Crowd Testing Platforms

On-demand crowdsourced research through crowdtesting platforms obtains real user feedback to ensure software reliability at an incredibly fast speed.

Hacker On-Demand - Crowdsourcing Week

Hacker On-Demand

In cybersecurity news, leading provider Synack has announced an on-demand service delivered by crowdsourced hackers, called Synack Campaigns.

How To Use Crowdsourcing in 5 Key Business Sectors

How To Use Crowdsourcing in 5 Key Business Sectors

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...

Top 5 Speech Recognition AI Platforms

Top 5 Speech Recognition AI Platforms

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...

Automatic Speech Recognition Systems and Crowdsourcing

Automatic Speech Recognition Systems and Crowdsourcing

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...

Citizen Scientists Continue to Boost Valuable Ecological Research

Citizen Scientists Continue to Boost Valuable Ecological Research

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...

Crowdsourcing IT Security During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Crowdsourcing IT Security During The COVID-19 Pandemic

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...