DISTRIBUTING INDUSTRIAL OPTIMIZATION TASKS TO RURAL WORKER

这项提案旨在调查这一论点，即大量的产业优化任务可以外包给农村工人，以提供可持续的熟练就业来源。该项目联合体汇集了一个具有跨学科专业知识的合作者团队，他们需要调查社会、商业和技术问题，这些问题是将“人类智能”转包给城市制造业的农村工人这一愿景所固有的。这项为期三年的计划的目标将是提供一种能够为农村人口带来长期利益的商业模式(得到一系列试验的业绩和经济证据的支持)。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，以及工业客户所需的业绩衡量标准和定价模式的建立。这个由学者、政府机构和商业企业组成的项目联盟汇集了从众包和互动计算机图形到服务创新和知识流程外包等各种技能的独特组合。

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.