Crowd and Open Sourcing

Crowd and OpenSourcing

By Lindsay Romo

Definition: obtaining services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people

Characteristics Subdivide tedious work Fund-raise for startups Combines the efforts of self-identified volunteers Undefined public rather than a specific group

Crowdsourcing

Graphic design Writing Illustration DesignContest Apparel design Footwear/Sporting

Goods Writing Illustration

Interior design Architecture Video Film/TV Music/sound design Voice Overs

Uses

Mainly to the Internet Crowdsourcing can either be explicit or implicit

Explicit: Books or webpages Share by posting products or items

Implicit: Standalone Piggyback

Modern methods

Spatial reasoning (or literally seeing solutions) Intuition Adaptivity Collaboration Self-organization Competition

Why it works

The smartest biochemists and fastest computers have made little progress on this bitterly difficult problem over half a century

Foldit - a protein folding game visual or spatial challenge goal is to arrange an on-screen protein into the

smallest possible shape that obeys all the rules Amateurs can fold proteins better than

chemists and computers

Biochemistry Example

Definition: any system of innovation or production that relies on goal-oriented yet loosely coordinated participants, who interact to create a product (or service) of economic value, which they make available to contributors and non-contributors alike

open source promotes universal access universal redistribution

Open Source

Computer software Electronics Beverages Digital content Medicine Science and

engineering Robotics

Fashion Education Media Religion Arts Recreation Hardware

Applications

Closed System Innovation

Open Innovation Model

Licensing Other Firm’sMarket

New Products/Services

Motivation

Extrinsic Motivators Financial compensation Recognition Awards

Intrinsic Motivators Autonomy Relatedness Learning Self-expression Control Enjoyment

Barriers & Opportunities

Barriers Social loafing Evaluation apprehension Production blocking

Opportunities Domain knowledge Creative thinking skills Problem orientation Motivation

Questions?

http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml

Wikipedia Professors slides

Works Cited