Title :
Strategies for community based crowdsourcing
Author :
Puah, Cindy ; Abu Bakar, Ahmad Zaki ; Ching, Chu Wei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Syst., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia
Abstract :
Crowdsourcing is about outsourcing a task or job to group of people or community, whereas community based crowdsourcing involve the community members in the early stage of planning and design to the implementation. The main motivation of writing this paper is to identify strategies that could be used in crowdsourcing projects. Study need to be done on how to maintain the crowd and how to get new people to join the crowd Therefore, in this paper, the strategies on how to encourage or motivate community members to contribute are identified.
Keywords :
social sciences computing; community based crowdsourcing; community member; community member motivation; crowdsourcing project; Communities; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Internet; Software; Technological innovation; community based; crowdsourcing; strategies;
Conference_Titel :
Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-295-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICRIIS.2011.6125717