Week 2: Journal 1

Crowdsourcing: The Dawn of Human network

This is the first time I heard about the term Crowdsorucing, It is an interesting chapter to read and understand how the human network can come together in the common platform to generate the content. I also see crowdsourcing as the platform for young talents to showcase their ideas. Below is the interesting video about crowd sourcing

One of the example I would like to mention in the blog is opening up the iPhone platform for the developers to develop apps for the iPhone, this has opened up a tremendous opportunity for both Apple and other companies/ individuals who develop the application for the iPhone platform.

As another example mentioned in the chapter was about the how P&G was successful in creating the initiative of 'Connect and develop' and their collaborative website InnoCentive was helpful to achieve their goal.

I would like to quote following line from the chapter "Crowdsourcing capitalizes on the deeply social nature of the human species. Crowdsourcing uses technology to foster unprecedented level of collaboration and meaningful exchange between people from every imaginable background in every imaginable geographical location."