Crowdsourcing the Interplanetary Internet

How Is NASA Designing the ‘Interplanetary Internet’ and Wearable Apps? By Crowdsourcing, Naturally

Nik Badminton | August 17, 2015

Crowdsourcing is a hot topic right now. Well-known companies have been crowdsourcing for some time now, with the most active crowdsourcing adopters of the past ten years being Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Danone. More recently Procter & Gamble, Unilever, and Nestlé were named as the top three in 2013 and 2014 (eYeka). Brands are becoming less ashamed of looking to their own consumers for financial assistance.
Recently, one of the most aspirational and inspirational brands in the world has looked to the crowd for help on a number of fronts. That out-of-this-world brand is NASA.

Satellites circling Mars could help send information back to Earth over an interplanetary Internet. Source: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/interplanetary-internet.htm 

<more at http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/17/nasa-crowdsources-designs-for-the-interplanetary-internet-and-wearable-apps/; related links: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/interplanetary-internet.htm (How Interplanetary Internet Will Work) and http://ipnsig.org/ (InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG) )>