Crowdsourcing as defined by Wikipedia is “the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and particularly from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers . This process is often used to split up tedious work or to raise money for startups and charities, and can also happen offline. It combines the efforts of numerous self-identified volunteers or part-time workers, where each contributor on their own initiative adds a small part to the larger result. The term "crowdsourcing" is a portmanteau of "crowd" and "outsourcing"; it is distinguished from outsourcing in that the work comes from an undefined audience rather than being commissioned by a specific, named group.” (Wikipedia 4/5/2014). The definition is further refined by Jeff Howe of Wired magazine as follows: “Simplifying the definition, crowdsourcing represents the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) of people in the form of an open call. This can take the form of peer production (when work is done collaboratively), but can also be undertaken by individuals. The crucial prerequisite is the use of the open call format and the broad network of potential workers.” (Brabham 76) One thing that Jeff Howe later clarifies in his definition that is not included in the Wikipedia definition is “it is only crowdsourcing when a company takes that design, manufactures it in mass quantities, and sells it.” (Brabham 76) Howe's clarification might have been accurate in the classical sense of the word in 2006, but non-profit organizations have also used crowdsourcing to solve problems... middle of paper... Daniel Veit. "More than Fun and Money. Worker Motivation in Crowdsourcing: A Study of Mechanical Turk." Proceedings of the Seventh American Conference on Information Systems (2011): 1-11. Web.5. Naroditskiy, Victor, Nicholas R. Jennings, Pascal Van Hentenryck, and Manuel Cebrian. “Crowdsourced Deimma.” University of Southampton National Information and Communications Technology Australia (2014): 1-15. Web.6. Schenk, Eric and Claude Guittard. “Crowdsourcing: What can be outsourced to the crowd and why?” Graduate School of Science and Technology of the University of Strasbourg (2009): 1-29. Web.7. Thomas, Stuart. “9 Examples of Crowdsourcing, Before Crowdsourcing Existed.” Memeburn. Np, 15 September 2011. Web. 4 May 2014.8. Youden, Diane, Jean Lee and Justin Angsuwat. “Harnessing the Power of Crowdsourcing.” PWC Advisory People and Change (Summer 2011): 1-8. W