What is one way that people have collaborated on the internet?

Crowdsourcing involves collecting work, information, or opinions from a large group of people who provide their data via the Internet. Similarly, iNaturalist is also a social network and mobile application for sharing biodiversity observations, with a mission to connect people to nature through technology. This application describes itself as "an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature", with its primary goal being to connect people to nature. iNaturalist is to provide a crowd-sourced species identification system. This means that if you post a photo of a species you don't recognize to iNaturalist, the community should tell you what you saw. On average observations take 18 days to be identified by the community, with half of all observations identified in the first 2 days As of September 20, 2020, iNaturalist has more than 50 million records of wild biodiversity with photos or sounds to allow verification by the community. This year, despite a pandemic and numerous natural disasters, the resilient iNaturalist community continues to forge new connections and discoveries. iNaturalist’s trend of roughly doubling the number of observations and participants each year since 2012. In conclusion, iNaturalist is a thriving online community driven by an army of smartphone-toting naturalists and biologists. take pictures of the flora and fauna they encounter, be it in urban environments or in the wild. They then use the iNaturalist app to upload their observations, as they are known, for their peers to identify. The numbers are already impressive after just six years of operation. it’s little wonder that iNaturalist has led to the discovery of completely new species, and rediscoveries of others.