CrowdSorcery®An ecosystem for collaborative innovators and authors

Non-profit Content Creation

• National Public Radio (NPR), Public Television

• Wikipedia

• U.S. Government-Sponsored Research

• Standards Bodies of Industry Organizations (SAE,IEEE,etc)

For-profit Content Creation

• Gartner and other research and consulting organizations

• Trade Publications

• Textbook Publishers

• Individual and Small Groups of Authors and their Publishers

• Ad-sponsored Newspapers, Television, Radio

Wikipedia• Wikipedia provides content at no cost to

users while requesting donations, similarly to NPR

• Some content achieves high quality, but not always as predictable quality as other systems probably because

• Wikipedia depends on unpaid contributors

• NPR and most other non-profit models pay their contributors

Crowdsorcery

• Implements the microroyalties concept

• Royalties are paid based on smaller units of contribution to a collaborative work rather than the entire work as a whole

• An improvement upon current wiki technology

• Required for industrial use large-scale collaborative e-publishing and design of large systems

Crowdsorcery

• Attracts the higher quality contributions and expertise because contributors are remunerated

• Compensates small contributions as well as large contributions proportional to the value of the contribution

• Free market of ideas

Crowdsorcery

• Promotes inclusivity in the design and development of new concepts; highly credentialed experts play on a level playing field with newer upcoming talent to the benefit of both

• Allows best ideas to percolate to attention and assigns appropriate credit for the best work

Idea Fair Trade and Fair Use

• Provides a mechanism for monetization of ideas in an fair and predictable manner

• Each contribution to a document or design artifact is rated for its value

• Contributors retain their intellectual property rights, but agree to license them using Crowdsorcery’s model

Idea Fair Trade and Fair Use

• Clarity regarding compensation to contributors and their employers reduces their IP-protection concerns

• With their IP protected, contributors are able to be both more productive and more collaborative

Monetization

• The Crowdsorcery system is funded via advertising, commissioning fees, book sales, and/or subscription fees like other content creation/distribution methods

• Best monetization mechanism can be decided by the commissioner in consultation with Crowdsorcery staff

Distribution of License Fees

• Income from collaboratively created products are distributed to contributors based on the importance and value of their submission

• How to value submissions can be determined by the owner/commissioner of a project

Potential Applications

• Training manuals created by numerous expert contributors, eg, FAA Airplane Flying Handbook

• Interoperability or compatibility standards

• Expert-written online resources

• Government projects requiring specialized expertise

Summary• Collaborative online publishing and design

system

• Compensates contributors based on the quality and importance of their additions, which incentivizes more knowledgeable contributors to participate

• Anticipates and counteracts intellectual property issues

• Lowers barriers to productive work

• Stimulates the economy and creates jobs in jobless economic recoveries