回顾｜Crowd-Based Structures for Digital Work Organizations

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活动总结

7月15日，上午9：00-10:30，美国佛罗里达州—University of South Floride的Gert-Jan de Vreede教授为夏令营同学们带来了主题为“Crowd-Based Structures for Digital Work Organizations”的精彩讲座。从采购的不同模式开始，与我们分享了一些关于交叉采购的信息和知识以及广泛采购如何使组织能够追求合作类型并为其利益相关者创造更多价值，本次讲座中同学们受益匪浅。

课程回顾

Great Waves of Changes in Human History

First wave of change:

From Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers to Agricultural Age(circa 10,000 BC)

Human&Animal Engine

Second wave of change:

From Agricultural Age to Industrial(circa 1750 AD）

Steam Engine

Electric Engine

Third wave of change:

From Industrial Age to Information Age

(circa 1950 AD)

Computer Engine

Evolution within the Information Age

First Era: Standalone Mainframes

Second Era: Hard-Wired Terminal

Third Era: Standalone Personal Computers

Fourth Era: Networks

Fifth Era: The Internet

Sixth Era: Wireless

So the times and technologies are changing fast.

President Bill Clinton (2002):"When I took the oath of office as President on January 20th,1993, there were only 50 sites on the World Wide Web. When I left office, there were over 350 million and rising.Today,there are probably somewhere around 500 million".

Currently,there are billions and billions of websites.

Social Media:Online technologies that enable the creation and sharing of ideas, opinions, information,and preferences via virtual communities and social networks.

Key characteristics:Web 2.0 technologies (user generated content, interoperability,interaction)

Identity:Profiles of users and other entities

Fostering of social networks C

Immediacy

Lack of permanence

Reach

The Changing Nature of Collaboration

From small,fixed to dynamic crowds

From time-boxed effort to endless engagement

From predefined deliverables to living artifacts

What is Crowdsourcing?

Crowdsourcing is a collaboration model enabled by social media technologies to solve individual, organizational,and societal problems using a dynamically formed crowd of interested people who respond to an open call for participation.

Crowdsourcingis Awesome

No or very little overhead

Free marketing

Lower cost compared to dedicated experts

Instant Hiring

.Talent comes to you

. Easy access to the global workers

. Anytime, anywhere workforce

Quick and efficient collection of information

May significantly contribute to innovation

Crowdsourcing is not always awesome

It can become expensive

Relies on non-experts

Quality cannot be guaranteed

Participants are not supervised

No guarantee of results

Confidential information cannot be crowdsourced

Malevolent applications

Labor Markets

An online environment where organizations and individuals can hire individuals to perform a large job that has been split into many small tasks, a.k.a. micro tasks

Other names:

Micro Task crowdsourcing

Microtasking

Crowdsourced labor

Citizen Science

What is Citizen Science Public participation in scientific research Scientific work undertaken by amateurs or non- professional scientists with or under the direction of professional scientists.

Other names:

Crowdsourced Science

Crowd Science

Networked Science

Flock sensing

Community Crowdsourcing

What is Community Crowdsourcing Problems solved organically by the community through complementing and iproving upon each other as they attempt to find a solution

Focuses on building connected and contributing communities by promoting community dialog online, ultimately leading to community action offline

Other names:

Open collaboration crowdsourcing

Community Engagement