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
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