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AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles

Course: AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles > Unit 8

Lesson 3: Crowdsourcing innovations
Computing
AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles
Computing innovations
Crowdsourcing innovations
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Crowdsourcing with a global crowd

AP.CSP:
IOC‑1 (EU)
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IOC‑1.E (LO)
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IOC‑1.E.4 (EK)
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What could you make if you had access to half of the world's population? What would you do with their knowledge, ideas, and time?
With the growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web, that's suddenly a real possibility.
Illustration of the world map with users scattered all over it.
Crowdsourcing is a way to take advantage of the large network of potential contributors online and funnel their resources into an output.
An illustration of crowdsourcing, with multiple users producing a single document.
Let's explore how crowdsourcing helps us to create common goods, invent new products, and make scientific discoveries.

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