If your universities, if your system of higher education migrates toward applied knowledge, away from the production of basic knowledge, it may therefore hurt your overall economy in terms of its capacity to generate the people and the talent you need for broad based problem solving and innovation regardless of its specific applications.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Higher education 'market' warning

With these practices, community-based projects become exercises in collective problem-solving.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The community-based project promotes crowdsourcing, or collective problem-solving.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences