by Matt Manning The term “crowdsourcing” is not aging well. Maybe it was a bit too folksy to begin with or, more probably, its slow evolution caused it to seem passé before it ever even hit its stride. Whatever the ... Read more
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by Matt Manning The rise of the agile workforce – where freelancers, “cloud labor,” and business process outsourcing firms augment the work of full-time employees– has given many types of companies a way to be more productive with lower operational ... Read more
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by Matt Manning The last year was a busy one for those of us in the data trenches and 2017 is shaping up to be even more so. Here are the trends that we think will shape the world of ... Read more
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by Kevin Dodds Information Evolution was proud to sponsor the recent Ashish Goel of Stanford University presented research on collaborative budget-setting processes currently in testing by city governments, a type of “volunteer crowd” work. Crowd sensors: Another project in development ... Read more
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by Matt Manning Information Evolution is proud to sponsor HCOMP 2016, the world’s premier event for unveiling the latest research on crowdsourcing and human computation. The HCOMP conference, run by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, is hosted ... Read more
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by Kevin Dodds Many businesspeople fear that crowdsourcing – or cloud labor – poses a threat to US jobs and thus our economy. In fact, the opposite is true. Using crowdsourcing to take care of time-consuming research, data collection, and ... Read more
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by Matt Manning One of the most underappreciated aspects of the rise of crowdsourcing is that it’s laying the groundwork for a fundamental change in the very nature of work. The construct of the M-F, 9am-5pm, on-site, day job is ... Read more
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by Kevin Dodds After half a decade of ever-increasing crowdsourcing volume, IEI has decided to put crowd-centered technology at the center of everything we do. This doesn’t mean that we now only use external crowd workers ‑ on the contrary, ... Read more
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As the information industry continues to evolve, we at IEI are convinced that crowdsourced updating will play an ever larger role in its underlying foundation. No longer will databases languish waiting for periodic updates. Rather, they will be constantly updated ... Read more
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