They are stimulated to think outside the box and experiment to test their new knowledge.

UNESCO: Biodiversity Initiative

Online bounty postings are passed around by e-mail and can easily end up in the in-box of somebody who has the immediate knowledge to bust a patent.

ECONOMIST: Bounty hunters

Anyone on the Internet is familiar with the search box and can find the data they are looking for without knowledge of any programming language.

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