Crowdsortium

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Crowdsortium is a group of crowdsourcing industry practitioners that have organized themselves with the mission of advancing the crowdsourcing industry through best practices, education, data collection, and public dialog. It is based out of Boulder, Colorado.
Crowdsortium helps address the issues that crop up as the crowdsourcing industry becomes more complex and itself is forced to adapt. The crowdsourcing model is being continuously applied to new issues. Crowdsourcing platforms now exist as a means of performing distributed tasks, co-creating complex solutions, and sourcing the best expert and amateur workers for projects that require specialized skills.
Crowdsortium helps crowdsourcers address questions like what crowdsourcing model to use; how to handle intellectual property rights; how to logistically manage international participants; how to fairly reward participants for their work; what are the benefits of monetary versus non-monetary rewards; how can game mechanics influence crowd dynamics; should the crowd be anonymous or individually identified; etc. The Crowdsortium is designed to use the very mechanism that the industry is built upon - crowdsourcing - to solve these issues. Currently there are more than 220 members of the Crowdsortium. By applying the collective wisdom of their experiences, they develop solutions that benefit all members. Members contribute new thoughts, ideas, and solutions that benefit every part of the crowdsourcing ecosystem .The Crowdsortium recognizes that the crowdsourcing ecosystem comprises five classes of participants: funders, practitioners, customers, the crowd and researchers. The Crowdsortium aims to provide each of these constituents with the knowledge, data and best practices to get the most out of their participation in crowdsourcing.
Membership
Crowdsortium membership is currently available for funders, practitioners, customers, and researchers. For each type of member there are five levels of participation from Premium to Free, each with varying degrees of benefits. Membership is renewed on an annual basis. Members need to have the following qualifications -
*Funders need to have at least one investment in a crowdsourcing company.
*Practitioners must have a functioning crowdsourcing business to be a member of the Crowdsortium.
*Customers need to have successfully completed one crowdsourcing project.
*Researchers must have published at least one piece on crowdsourcing or related topics.

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