I’m fascinated by crowd sourcing in technology and science.The most well-known example of crowd sourcing is Wikipedia, which defines crowd sourcing as:

… the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to a group (crowd) of people or community in the form of an open call.For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task (also known as community-based design^[1] and distributed participatory design), refine or carry out the steps of an algorithm (see Human-based computation), or help capture, systematize or analyze large amounts of data (see also citizen science).

The term has become popular with business authors and journalists as
shorthand for the trend of leveraging the mass collaboration enabled by
Web 2.0
technologies to achieve business goals. However, both the term and its
underlying business models have attracted controversy and criticisms.

I like the idea of crowd sourcing because it appeals to my hope for our world.’

I’ve seen it work for Wikipedia, where an ESCONI member, Karen Nordquist, added material.

But I’ve also heard recent criticisms that crowd sourcing is usually the hard work of a small number of people.

So I was heartened to see how well Galaxy Zoo is doing:

The original Galaxy Zoo was launched in July 2007, with a data set made up of a million galaxies imaged with the robotic telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
With so many galaxies, the team thought that it might take at least two
years for visitors to the site to work through them all. Within 24
hours of launch, the site was receiving 70,000 classifications an hour,
and more than 50 million classifications were received by the project
during its first year, from almost 150,000 people.

I wish The Open Dinosaur Project  much success.