Crowdsourcing as a method of transdisciplinary research-Tapping the full potential of participants

Futures

Volumn 60, Issue , 2014, Pages 14-22

  Wechsler, Dietmar ^a  

^a Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Participation; Transdisciplinary research; Web based technologies; Wisdom of crowds

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84901944075     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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