Can crowdsourcing solve development problems?

GlobalGiving, the Rockefeller Foundation and InnoCentive have combined to launch the Global Giveback Innovation Challenge. This will give five non-profit organizations access to InnoCentive’s network of problem-solvers to help them to solve urgent problems to do with water in their communities. Through InnoCentive’s network, organizations or ‘seekers’ submit problems to a ‘solver’ community of more than 200,000 engineers, scientists, inventors, business professionals and research organizations around the world.