Aug 1, 2018
The ordinary people making medical breakthroughs via crowdsourcing – solving problems that have doctors beat
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, health
The WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases developed the guide to help boost public health by using crowdsourcing, where a group of experts and non-experts solve a problem and then share the solution with the public.
Researchers can get too close to their subject and a layman’s intuition can achieve medical breakthroughs, as World Health Organisation crowdsourcing initiatives continue to show.