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May 9, 2016
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Crowdsourcing enlists the services of many people to accomplish a task.
Crowdsourcing enlists the services of many people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the Internet, to accomplish a task that might be difficult or not cost-effective with full-time or geographically limited staff.
Credit: Testbirds GmbH (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons
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