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Crowdsourcing to identify social innovation initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries

BACKGROUND: Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production mechanism that leverages the collective intelligence of non-expert individuals and networked communities for specific goals. Social innovation (SI) initiatives aim to address health challenges in a sustainable manner, with a p...

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Autores principales: van Niekerk, Lindi, Ongkeko, Arturo, Hounsell, Rachel Alice, Msiska, Barwani Khaura, Mathanga, Don Pascal, Mothe, Josselyn, Juban, Noel, Awor, Phyllis, Balabanova, Dina
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33028407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00751-x
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author van Niekerk, Lindi
Ongkeko, Arturo
Hounsell, Rachel Alice
Msiska, Barwani Khaura
Mathanga, Don Pascal
Mothe, Josselyn
Juban, Noel
Awor, Phyllis
Balabanova, Dina
author_facet van Niekerk, Lindi
Ongkeko, Arturo
Hounsell, Rachel Alice
Msiska, Barwani Khaura
Mathanga, Don Pascal
Mothe, Josselyn
Juban, Noel
Awor, Phyllis
Balabanova, Dina
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description BACKGROUND: Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production mechanism that leverages the collective intelligence of non-expert individuals and networked communities for specific goals. Social innovation (SI) initiatives aim to address health challenges in a sustainable manner, with a potential to strengthen health systems. They are developed by actors from different backgrounds and disciplines. This paper describes the application of crowdsourcing as a research method to explore SI initiatives in health. METHODS: The study explored crowdsourcing as a method to identify SI initiatives implemented in Africa, Asia and Latin America. While crowdsourcing has been used in high-income country settings, there is limited knowledge on its use, benefits and challenges in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings. From 2014 to 2018, six crowdsourcing contests were conducted at global, regional and national levels. RESULTS: A total of 305 eligible projects were identified; of these 38 SI initiatives in health were identified. We describe the process used to perform a crowdsourcing contest for SI, the outcome of the contests, and the challenges and opportunities when using this mechanism in LMICs. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that crowdsourcing is a participatory method, that is able to identify bottom-up or grassroots SI initiatives developed by non-traditional actors.
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spelling pubmed-75394762020-10-08 Crowdsourcing to identify social innovation initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries van Niekerk, Lindi Ongkeko, Arturo Hounsell, Rachel Alice Msiska, Barwani Khaura Mathanga, Don Pascal Mothe, Josselyn Juban, Noel Awor, Phyllis Balabanova, Dina Infect Dis Poverty Research Article BACKGROUND: Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production mechanism that leverages the collective intelligence of non-expert individuals and networked communities for specific goals. Social innovation (SI) initiatives aim to address health challenges in a sustainable manner, with a potential to strengthen health systems. They are developed by actors from different backgrounds and disciplines. This paper describes the application of crowdsourcing as a research method to explore SI initiatives in health. METHODS: The study explored crowdsourcing as a method to identify SI initiatives implemented in Africa, Asia and Latin America. While crowdsourcing has been used in high-income country settings, there is limited knowledge on its use, benefits and challenges in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings. From 2014 to 2018, six crowdsourcing contests were conducted at global, regional and national levels. RESULTS: A total of 305 eligible projects were identified; of these 38 SI initiatives in health were identified. We describe the process used to perform a crowdsourcing contest for SI, the outcome of the contests, and the challenges and opportunities when using this mechanism in LMICs. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that crowdsourcing is a participatory method, that is able to identify bottom-up or grassroots SI initiatives developed by non-traditional actors. BioMed Central 2020-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7539476/ /pubmed/33028407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00751-x Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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van Niekerk, Lindi
Ongkeko, Arturo
Hounsell, Rachel Alice
Msiska, Barwani Khaura
Mathanga, Don Pascal
Mothe, Josselyn
Juban, Noel
Awor, Phyllis
Balabanova, Dina
Crowdsourcing to identify social innovation initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries
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title_full Crowdsourcing to identify social innovation initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries
title_fullStr Crowdsourcing to identify social innovation initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries
title_full_unstemmed Crowdsourcing to identify social innovation initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries
title_short Crowdsourcing to identify social innovation initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries
title_sort crowdsourcing to identify social innovation initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33028407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00751-x
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