Crowdsourcing in the public sector

• Main Author: Brabham, Daren C., 1982- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Georegtown University Press, [2015]
• Series: Public management and change
• Subjects: crowdsourcing; veřejná správa > Spojené státy americké; občanská angažovanost > Spojené státy americké; politická angažovanost > Spojené státy americké; participativní demokracie > Spojené státy americké; outsourcing > Spojené státy americké; sociální média > Spojené státy americké; public administration > United States; community involvement > United States; political involvement > United States; participatory democracy > United States; outsourcing > United States; social media > United States; studie; studies
• ISBN: 9781626163799
• Physical Description: xvi, 97 stran ; 23 cm

Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined in 2006 to describe how the commercial sector was beginning to outsource problems or tasks to the public through an open call for solutions over the internet or social media. Crowdsourcing works to generate new ideas or develop innovative solutions to problems...