:(''Late last week I pointed to a Wikipedia entry as evidence that crowdsourcing had become a bonafide neologism ... but I'm also noticing that the word is being used somewhat interchangably with Yochai Benkler's concept of commons-based peer production ... I'm content to allow the crowd define the term for itself ... But I would be remiss if I did not play my own role in that process.
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:''Simply defined, crowdsourcing represents the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call. This can take the form of peer-production (when the job is performed collaboratively), but is also often undertaken by sole individuals. The crucial prerequisite is the use of the open call format and the large network of potential laborers.)''<ref>[http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/cs/2006/06/crowdsourcing_a.html Jeff Howe. ”Crowdsourcing: A Definition”], www.crowdsourcing.org, 2006.</ref>
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