DISTRIBUTING INDUSTRIAL OPTIMIZATION TASKS TO RURAL WORKER

本提案旨在研究大量工业优化任务可以外包给农村工人以提供可持续的技术就业来源的论点。该项目联盟汇集了一组具有跨学科专业知识的合作者，以调查将“人类智能”从城市制造业转包给农村工人这一愿景所固有的社会、商业和技术问题。这个为期三年的项目的目标是提供一种能够为农村人口带来长期利益的“商业模式”（由一系列试验的绩效和经济证据支持）。实现这一目标的挑战包括与低识字率相关的社会和培训问题，以及建立工业客户所需的绩效指标和定价模型。该项目由学术界、政府机构和商业企业组成，汇集了从众包和交互式计算机图形到服务创新和知识流程外包的独特技能组合。

This proposal seeks to investigate the thesis that large numbers of industrial optimisation tasks can be outsourced to rural workers to provide a sustainable source of skilled employment. The project consortium brings together a team of collaborators with the interdisciplinary expertise required to investigate the social, business and technological issues inherent in the vision of "human intelligence" being subcontracted to rural workers from urban manufacturing industry. The goal of the three year program will be to deliver a 'business model' (supported by the performance and economic evidence from a series of trials) that can deliver long term benefits to rural populations. The challenges of delivering this objective range from the social and training issues associated with low literacy rates to the establishment of the performance metrics and pricing models required by the industrial customers. The project consortium of academics, government agency and commercial enterprises brings together a unique combination of skills that range from Crowdsouring and Interactive computer graphics to service innovation and Knowledge Process Outsourcing.