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Below is a list of projects that rely on crowdsourcing. See also open innovation.

== A ==
Adaptive Vehicle Make was a project overseen by DARPA to crowdsource the design and manufacture of a new armored vehicle.
Air Quality Eggs by WickedDevices are open-source hardware Internet of Things pollution monitors that facilitate citizen crowdsourcing of air quality readings
Amara is a website that enables crowdsourced translations of videos from a variety of popular video hosting websites. The subtitles created are used to make online video content accessible to a wider audience, including the deaf and hard of hearing, and those who cannot understand the language of the source.
Amazon Mechanical Turk, a platform on which crowdsourcing tasks called "HITs" (Human Intelligence Tasks") can be created and publicized and people can execute the tasks and be paid for doing so. Dubbed "Artificial Artificial Intelligence", it was named after The Turk, an 18th-century chess-playing "machine".
The first crowdsourced documentary film is the non-profit The American Revolution, which went into production in 2005, and which examines the role media played in the cultural, social and political changes from 1968 to 1974 through the story of underground, free-form radio station WBCN-FM in Boston. When the project began, by seeking archival contributions from the public, the term "crowdsource" was not in use, and so the film was referred to as the "first open source documentary film". The film is being produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media and the non-profit Filmmakers Collaborative.
Arrange to Settle is an Indian-American film funded through crowdsourcing platforms.
Article One Partners, founded in 2008, is a community of technology experts who execute crowdsourced prior art search by researching and contributing information related to patents.  By submitting research to the online platform, the community members compete for cash rewards, ranging from $5,000 to $50,000.

== B ==
Berkeley Open System for Skill Aggregation (BOSSA), by analogy with the volunteer computing project Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
Any software project with an open Beta test.
The Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence. Bellingcat operate a Discord server of more than 10 000 members with many volunteers among them participating in investigative tasks.
Beyond Words was a crowdsourcing project created at the Library of Congress in 2017 using the open source codebase Scribe, created by Zooniverse and New York Public Library. It asked volunteers to identify cartoons and photographs in the Chronicling America historic newspaper collections. The purpose was partly to improve research based on these collections.
BlueServo was a free website, which crowdsourced surveillance of the Texas–Mexico border through live camera streaming over the Internet. This evolved from an initiative taken by the State of Texas, which announced it would install 200 mobile cameras along the Texas–Mexico border, that would enable anyone with an internet connection to watch the border and report sightings of alleged illegal immigrants to border patrol agents. It was later shut down due to lack of funding.
Britain in a Day is a Ridley Scott film, a successor project to Life in a Day, and part of the BBC's Cultural Olympiad, in which people in Britain filmed themselves on 12 November 2011, and submitted video clips online for inclusion in the film.
By the People is a transcription and tagging crowdsourcing project from the Library of Congress. It launched on 24 October 2018. Volunteers can participate anonymously or by making an account. Signed in volunteers can edit other people's transcriptions. Materials are broken into "Campaigns" such as "Letters to Lincoln". "Rosa Parks: In her own words". and "Anna E. Dickinson Papers". Transcriptions are published on the Library of Congress main website, and are available for bulk download once a Campaign is complete.