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Tobias Klug and Robert Lokaiczyk had the idea of a service doing ‘microjobs’ via crowdsourcing on mobile phones. The small jobs are distributed directly on maps to the phones and subscribers can complete the jobs in return for a small payment. Typical jobs are reporting on broken lights and grafitti at rail stations
Their start-up company “wer denkt was GmbH” (“who thinks what”) is now supported by the ESA Business Incubation Centre Darmstadt, one of seven such ESA centres across Europe.