My team members and I read Macrowikinomics and especially the opportunities of crowdsourcing caught our attention.
Crowdsourcing is the outsourcing of a research task to a large group of people in the form of an open call. The papers we read explain in detail the goals for which crowdsourcing can be used and a lot of different methods for the practical implementation. But we noticed that most of the authors ignored the aspect of motivating people to participate in crowdsourcing. So as a team we decided to focus our presentation and paper on the following research question:
"What is the best way to attract people and motivate them to participate in crowdsourcing?
We want to investigate if people participate in crowdsourcing because of the financial compensation or because of immaterial aspects such as skill variety, the possibility to build up human capital,
