Who framed Crowdsourcing?

Crowdsourcing has received a great deal of attention over the past few years. But what does this buzzword really mean? Why should we use crowdsourcing? What can be crowdsourced? And how can we design successful crowdsourcing initiatives?
This workshop is part of a design science doctoral thesis carried out by Ulysse Rosselet, phd candidate in information systems at HEC lausanne, who has been studying this phenomenon for two years now.
The final goal of this research is to create a methodology to support the design of adequate crowdsourcing platforms.

This workshop will not follow typical structure of academic presentations, it is not a lecture about crowdsourcing! I want to use this space to achieve two goals: one the one hand, I need to elicit from internet-savvy lifters their understanding of crowdsourcing, its potential applications and its perspectives. This will be done thanks to collaborative scenario building and narrative techniques. On the other hand, we will use a taxonomy of crowdsourcing developed during this research to classify various examples of crowdsourcing initiatives.
The participants will come out of this workshop with fresh ideas about how they can use crowdsourcing in a creative way in their professional activities, and practical hints about how to coordinate a crowdsourcing operation!