A sub-segment of the Human Cloud, Crowdsourcing is an online platform model that enables work assignments to get parsed out and performed (often as disaggregated “microtasks”) by a farflung “crowd” of independent workers who perform (paid or otherwise compensated/incented) work at will. Typically, the client of a “crowdsourcing” platform is purchasing “an outcome” (as a service output, not a labor relationship). Crowdsourcing also includes work arrangements where a “crowd” of workers compete or bid against one another to solve problems or tasks, with winner(s) selected and compensated based on the merit of their submissions.