What is Crowdsourcing?

"Crowdsourcing involves obtaining work, information, or opinions from a large group of people who submit their data via the Internet, social media, and smartphone apps.

People involved in crowdsourcing sometimes work as paid freelancers, while others perform small tasks voluntarily. For example, traffic apps like Waze encourage drivers to self-report accidents and other roadway incidents to provide real-time, updated information to app users."
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/crowdsourcing.asp

"Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which an individual or an organization gets support from a large, open-minded, and rapidly evolving group of people in the form of ideas, micro-tasks, finances, etc. Crowdsourcing typically involves the use of the internet to attract a large group of people to divide tasks or to achieve a target. The term was coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson. Crowdsourcing can help different types of organizations get new ideas and solutions, deeper consumer engagement, optimization of tasks, and several other things."
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-is-crowdsourcing/

"Crowdsourcing is an immense benefit to a business that doesn’t have the desire or the resources to hire a large staff of people to put in eight hours a day at the office. When you can tap an unlimited amount of talent that is available 24 hours a day to do your work for a mutually beneficial price and on a flexible schedule, it takes your business well beyond the typical capabilities of the 9-to-5 world and spares the expenses of hiring and retaining employees."
https://www.chimicro.com/2015/07/29/what-is-crowdsourcing/

Crowdsourcing Platforms: A Unique, Cost-Effective Strategy for Start-Up Success
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/crowdsourcing-platforms-a_b_8314266