"Changemakers, an initiative of Ashoka, is combining the techniques of crowd sourcing, open sourcing, and open innovation to provide an online platform that sources social innovations and accelerates the speed at which they go to scale. The combination of these techniques, described as crowd collaboration, represents the accumulation of ideas from many people with varying skills sets and backgrounds, refined by mutual feedback and productive critique, and with unfettered replication, redistribution, and reuse of innovations. Implemented through an ongoing series of collaborative competitions, Changemakers has built a community of social innovation that is beginning to turn the online competition into offline action."