Daemo

Abstract

Crowdsourcing marketplaces provide opportunities for autonomous and collaborative professional work as well as social engagement. However, in these marketplaces, workers feel disrespected due to unreasonable rejections and low payments, whereas requesters do not trust the results they receive. The lack of trust and uneven distribution of power among workers and requesters have raised serious concerns about sustainability of these marketplaces. To address the challenges of trust and power, this paper introduces Daemo, a self-governed crowdsourcing marketplace. We propose a prototype task to improve the work quality and open-governance model to achieve equitable representation. We envisage Daemo will enable workers to build sustainable careers and provide requesters with timely, quality labor for their businesses.

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Affiliated Institutions

• Western University CA
• Carnegie Mellon University US
• Rajarata University of Sri Lanka LK
• Sami Labs (India) IN
• Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat IN
• LNM Institute of Information Technology IN
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México MX
• University of Reading GB
• Notre Dame High School US
• Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi IN
• University of Colorado Boulder US
• Osnabrück University DE
• PayPal (United States) US
• University of Copenhagen DK
• The University of Texas at Austin US
• Stevens Institute of Technology US
• Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology IN
• University of Moratuwa LK
• Toronto Metropolitan University CA
• Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian US
• Northwestern University US
• University of California, Santa Cruz US
• Marin Community Foundation US
• Stanford University US
• Software (Germany) DE
• New York University US
• Middlesex University GB
• University of Mumbai IN
• Vellore Institute of Technology University IN

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