Crowdsourcing is a type of outsourcing. Outsourcing means applying and implementing collective wisdom to utilize the collective knowledge and financial power of online users to achieve profitable results. Crowdfunding means using collective financial power and crowdsourcing means using collective knowledge.

When you want to do something and you don’t have the time or ability to do it yourself, you can delegate it to a team or group outside your own work group and achieve the desired result at your own expense.
The amount of money and time required to complete a project depends on a variety of factors, but what happens when your project is so large that an external team can’t handle it? One way to do this is to invite different groups and populations to volunteer to complete the project and take on some of the work.
Today, some projects are being driven forward with the help of a huge population, a population that may not even be aware that they are involved in a very complex project to improve other systems.

Crowdsourcing refers to outsourcing to a large group of unselected Internet users, which may include skilled or inexperienced individuals.
Crowdsourcing focuses on engaging the public in activities such as problem solving, concept generation and development, idea generation, innovation, content generation, public opinion gathering, and service delivery processes that have a direct impact on product quality, customer loyalty, and satisfaction. Informality, vertical and horizontal communication, and non-monopoly of information are some of the benefits of crowdsourcing.

The crowdsourcing business model focuses on the voluntary participation of the population to produce innovative products. The Wikipedia platform is one of the prominent examples of the crowdsourcing business model.
The first example of crowdsourcing was the Oxford Dictionary. At that time (19th century), volunteers were asked to send every English word they knew, along with its meaning and example, to the collecting institution. After this announcement and in the 70 years since, more than 6 million responses have been sent to the institution, resulting in the Oxford Dictionary.

Crowdsourcing is the act of selecting an activity that was previously performed by an employee and now refers it to a large, undefined group of people outside the organization during a public call and entirely on a voluntary basis.
For an action to be outsourced, it must be traditionally performed by an agent, which is what outsourcing means. The collective opportunity to participate in this activity can be created by an entrepreneur, who in turn creates the basis for his business model.

A very clear example of the concept of crowdsourcing that we encounter every day is the concept of reCAPTCHA. In many cases, when you want to enter a site or download a file, you have to go through a process to show that you are a human and not a malicious bot trying to enter the site.
When you check the box “I’m not a robot”, you will probably be asked to enter something that looks like a license plate or a phrase written on a sign, which is not that hard to recognize.

In contrast, you have played the role of a free agent for a company like Google so that it can more effectively extract letters and numbers from images and complete its various projects such as Google Maps or Google Library.
These texts, signs, and images that we are asked to type in are actually street signs or books scanned by Google (and other companies) to be added to the digitized information collection. With the help of reCAPTCHA, secure access to sites is provided, and in return, millions of images, phrases, and signs are reviewed and verified by human resources every day.