Crowdsourcing, by definition, is a participative online activity where an entity proposes a voluntary task to a group of individuals of varying knowledge and heterogeneity. The exercise should ideally result in mutual benefit. While the participant could get social recognition or a sense of self esteem (and in some cases, economic gains too) for making the contribution, the crowdsourcer derives advantage from what is shared. The concept has, for some years, been a political tool the world over from Iceland to Finland to the US for bringing about change, made particularly famous by Arab Spring.
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