Submitted by rthomas on Wed, 01/17/2018 - 14:32
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Submitted by rgordon on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 10:37
The growing interest in “engaging the crowd” to identify or develop innovative solutions to public problems has been inspired by similar efforts in the commercial world. There, crowdsourcing has been successfully used to design innovative consumer products or solve complex scientific problems, ranging from custom-designed T-shirts to mapping genetic DNA strands.