Main content
Course: AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles > Unit 8
Lesson 3: Crowdsourcing innovationsCrowdsourcing with a global crowd
What could you make if you had access to half of the world's population? What would you do with their knowledge, ideas, and time?
With the growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web, that's suddenly a real possibility.
Crowdsourcing is a way to take advantage of the large network of potential contributors online and funnel their resources into an output.
Let's explore how crowdsourcing helps us to create common goods, invent new products, and make scientific discoveries.
Want to join the conversation?
- What has crowdsourcing created lately and what new products are used for scientific discoveries?(1 vote)
- just look it up dawg(58 votes)
- bruh I'm in crippling debt and I need money. lol 🤣😎😋🤩😍(20 votes)
- Is democracy a form of crowdsourcing?(8 votes)
- Yes, democracy and republics are forms of crowdsourcing, as they gather multiple ideas from many different people.(5 votes)
- How come when I try to use crowdscourcing, my gluten-free couch turns on my 3 billion year-old TV to watch ghost-busters while im trying to destroy a dairy-free shirt that stole my coffee that is -37 degrees cold which just spontaneously combusted 6 seconds ago while hibernating on top of a 50% vegan microwave that can burn a lemon so much it turns yellow, while also having the ability to tell time backwards.(9 votes)
- What is your favorite color?(1 vote)