Presented by: TANNIR Rim MEZHER Rita CHACRA Elie

Crowdsourcing

• People are always searching for new ways to solve problems. And asking everyone around for help so they can get refreshing ideas in achieving their tasks. Therefore they developed the concept of outsourcing in something new that Jeff Howe named crowdsourcing.

• crowdsourcing is the fact of delegating a task that is usually made by an employee and outsourcing it to a large group .The fundamental condition is the use of the Internet and the social media tools and site and engage the large network of potential laborers.

Elance is an online talent workplace that applies the crowdsourcing by combining highly qualified expert with hundreds of companies that are seeking for help. Elance offers Advanced screening and rating tools to help selecting the best providers .

Elance is giving the opportunity to small and large business to be associated with freelancers that hold technical skills and are willing to provide the answer or perform the task.

More than that Elance is managing the relationship between these two parties from the actual posting of the job to invoicing, payment and feedback. And to make sure that the job is done Elance holds the payment in escrow until the work is satisfactorily completed.

Elance

Positive point:

Problems can be investigated quickly and at low cost.

crowdsourcing agencies hire anyone who cares to be engaged in helping and solving a problem and in generating ideas.

crowdsourcing may connect you with local or international organization

Crowdsourcing offer lots of choices to people in terms of how they might lend a hand of help.

crowdsourcing Employ intelligent networks to put peer production to work and creating group intelligency.

In crowdsourcing the job can be done by a group and also it can undertake by sole individuals

Crowdsourcing is a way to reduce costs for tasks that don’t require high levels of expertise or can be sub-divided in smaller tasks

Negative point:

In crowdsourcing you can always find non-experts, hobbyists and hackers, and u can never make sure if you’re dealing with a professional or no.

In crowdsourcing there is always the fear of being sued because you can never tell if the project is riped-offs of another company.

In crowdsourcing if the crowd is not qualified you will go to get plenty of uninspired junk

If the crowd is not mixed of people you may lay on one mane option only

In crowdsourcing you cannot trust the people that you’re working with because you cannot establish employment relationships especially if each part is in a country and the only contact is by internet