Amazon Mechanical Turk is a mass-micro outsourcing API, where you can get lots's of small simple tasks (e.g."Is there a shop in this image") done relatively cheaply (e.g. 0.10 U$ per image).
Amazon seems to assume that this service is mostly of interest to US companies. This results in difficulties if you want to use the service (as an "Requester"): for example there is no easy way of funding your Account without an US Bank account.
Can somebody share experiences of using the Service from outside the US?
Since Amazon doesn't let outside US access yet, you'll need to either:
- Wait for Amazon to open it up to outside US, might be a long wait.
- Get a good friend in the US to open a PO Box for you then use an online US bank to create an account. If you don't start a corporation or other legal business, they will need to provide their US drivers license to Amazon too.
- Use a 3rd party provider like HIT-Builder who will let you post on Mechanical Turk using their US Amazon account.
I think they recently changed their rules - I am based in Australia, and as recently as 6 months ago I was unable to use Mechanical Turk. That recently changed and now I am able to post jobs on the service.
You may want to take a look at TurkPrime labs which offers this as a service to non-US based researchers.
The problem you have is that to actually be able to add funds to your account, you need to have a US billing address. If you can get round that issue, then it all works fine.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/478426/using-amazon-mechanicalturk-if-location-us