NAVER Webtoon is a platform that led the revolutionary transition of Comics medium from print to digital in South Korea. It leveraged a crowdsourcing mechanism to develop quality content and creators.
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing Navigation: The Effects of GPS in our Pockets
Waze is a case study in what is possible – both good and bad – when real-time data is at our fingertips
From Citizens-Connect to Connected Citizens
For too long government-citizen interactions have been disconnected. Every once in a while, in a democratic system, people would go to the polls and express their preferences by electing representatives and delegating in these individuals a lot of power until […]
Premise: Using Crowdsourcing to Connect Governments with Markets and Citizens
Premise’s network of 80,000 contributors across 30 countries gather local data to provide fast insights into local economics and more. Can the company grow its work with government?
CrowdFlower: Powering the Human Side of Artificial Intelligence
CrowdFlower is solving machine learning's dirty secret – that humans are still needed to train the models we all rely on every day.
Crowdsourcing for Cash – Cryptocurrency Mining
Bitcoin has taken advantage of distributed computing. What other resources are underutilized and ripe for crowdsourcing?
Building Together: How LEGO leverages crowdsourcing to sustain both innovation and brand love
LEGO has created an online community of nearly one million members and is using crowdsourcing both to select new product ideas and provide their most loyal supporters an outlet to share their creations.
CrowdMed, a virtual Dr. House
CrowdMed is an online platform that connects patients with difficult medical conditions to a medical community that uses its collective intelligence to find the right diagnosis. When a patient has a rare condition or non-specific symptoms, getting an accurate diagnosis […]
LEGO Ideas – Attracting creative builders
Outsourcing product ideation
Patreon: Creators, Come Get Paid
A crowdfunding platform, Patreon supports the arts by modernizing the patronage system of yore.