Crowdsourcing Innovation, The NASA Narrative

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Crowdsourcing InnovationThe NASA NarrativeJoe GristonRegional Director, Europefreelancer.com

@gristonjoe

joe@freelancer.com

4 billion people have never used the internet

But they are coming, FAST!

An extra 2 billion internet users by 2020

Different culturesDifferent lifestylesDifferent life pressures

Established internet users spend their time doing this:

New internet users spend their time doing this:

The wealth of human knowledge can be found online

Meet Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian had a bold idea

160,000 enrollments 23,000 passed

Of the top 400 students… Not 1 went to Stanford

Meanwhile, in the ‘developed’ world

What do startups need?

Talent!

Freelancer.com is the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and number of projects posted.

10,258,209Projects & Contests Posted

21,252,448Registered Users

*As of 18th November 2016

Empowering entrepreneurs, globally

Small businesses, startups, entrepreneurs,

consumer employers

Large, high quality, on-demand

entrepreneurial workforce

We are changing lives in the developing

world by providing

opportunity and income.

We help small businesses, startups and

entrepreneurs turn that

spark of an idea into reality.

Design of a digital counting wristband for $220

We are changing lives by

providing opportunity and

income.

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Crowdsource your job with Freelancer Contests

Over 120,000 Contests posted in 2015.

Freelancer run contests

NASA partners with FreelancerCrowdsourcing solutions to complex problems faced by

the astronauts on the International Space Station

NASA Challenge: Astronaut Smartwatch App Interface Design

www.freelancer.com/contest/nasa