Soumya.V, Shubhashree P K Acharya
There have been several attempts and opinions in varied fields to understand about crowd sourcing and its application in various domains. Lot of research has been conducted to develop a cohesive definition that can contain all aspects of Crowdsourcing. There is sufficient literature available explaining the concept of crowd sourcing. Even though, crowd sourcing as a tool for problem solving has been used since early 18th century, it gained momentum with the advent of internet. Now a days, we could find crowd sourcing in almost all spheres of human life. This paper tries to explore how information technology has influenced the growth of crowd sourcing and also tries to check whether IT enabled crowd sourcing is a win-win model among the various stakeholders.
Business, Crowdsourcing, Government, Information Technology, Stakeholders