Crowdsourcing: the Advent of Open Innovative Researches (abstract only)  

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Inductivo, Ivan Brian L.

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The International Symposium on Social Sciences (TISSS) and Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (HKICEPS) at Hongkong, December 2013, page 186.
Topik: Collective Intelligence; Crowdsourcing; Open Innovation; Open Research; Public Participation
Fulltext: Hong Kong-Conference 21.pdf (213.05KB)

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Crowdsourcing, the seminal term coined by Jeff Howe (2006) in his article The Rise of Crowdsourcing in the Wired magazine, connotes the idea of gathering information from a community in order to make decisions. Henceforth, crowdsourcing has been a problemsolving approach to allow people, especially in a social media platform, to engage and provide data, fund or even analysis. From dictionary building (Scottish words and placenames [SWAP]), patient-based medical researches (InnoCentive), articulating history (Strandlines project), classifying information (University of Oxford’s Galaxy Zoo) and others, this emerging culture has been currently prevalent. Open culture is the contemporary paradigm were people not just share and access information freely, but contribute-developdisseminate it as well. It provides the society the avenue, not just to interrelate, but to cocreate information and technology. Open culture combined with crowdsourcing in the conduct of research makes people involved in the data gathering-processing and empowers them to become both creators and beneficiaries of the information. However, it can be said that there is a current dearth of recognition on this method of research in the Philippine academic landscape. This study intended to expose, critically analyze and propose open innovative researches through crowdsourcing as a model to improve the researchdevelopment- dissemination process. The methodology employed was a dialectics of philosophical inquiry. Its process commenced with an exposition, then, subjected to critical analysis, and finally proposed a synthetic model from the foregoing. The results of the study shows that researchers are seeing and taking the advantages of interactive technology to fund, generate and disseminate their research agenda. It is conclusive that open innovative researches through crowdsourcing becomes more efficient in the accessibility and collaboration of participants, and in the data gathering process as compared to the traditional approach of surveying through written materials. It is, although, disputed with regards to the quality and reliability of the information gathered, especially defending on the source and mode of transmission. Open innovative research is an emerging model which is still continuously evolving to address the needs as well as to improve its process.

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