Both the free and open source software (FOSS) as well as the distributed digital
manufacturing of free and open source hardware (FOSH) has shown particular promise …

Attempts to monitor the quality of freshwater resources on a global scale unveil huge data
lacks. Involving citizens in data collection has potential to resolve this lack of water quality …

In an initial coin offering (ICO), new ventures raise capital by selling tokens to a crowd of
investors. Often, this token is a cryptocurrency, a digital medium of value exchange based on …

A growing amount of scientific research is done in an open collaborative fashion, in projects
sometimes referred to as “crowd science”,“citizen science”, or “networked science”. This …

Open source software (OSS) is a social and economic phenomenon that raises fundamental
questions about the motivations of contributors to information systems development. Some …

Modelling the economics of climate change is daunting. Many existing methodologies from
social and physical sciences need to be deployed, and new modelling techniques and ideas …

The word Crowdsourcing–a compound contraction of Crowd and Outsourcing, was used by
Howe in order to define outsourcing to the crowd. Beyond cost, benefits for the company can …

Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem-solving and production model already in
use by businesses such as Threadless. com, iStockphoto. com, and InnoCentive. com. This …

Breaking with many established assumptions about how innovation ought to work, open
source software projects offer eye-opening examples of novel innovation practices for …

In recent years we have witnessed a significant growth of social‐computing communities—
online services in which users share information in various forms. As content contributions …