Design plays a key role in the effectiveness of crowdsourcing platforms, new research from Eindhoven University of Technology shows. The steady growth of crowdsourcing in recent years brings significant challenges such as increasing competition, delivering high...
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – How a Trump presidency affects real estate crowdfunding; why bike companies are turning to public money; CrowdFlower announces a scientific advisory board to combine AI and crowdsourcing and...
What did you want to be when you grew up? This is perhaps rather an outmoded question, isn’t it, more suited to a “jobs for life” culture? What occupations can people choose that aren’t going to disappear over the next 25 years or so. If Uber has its way automated...
Crowdsourcing Week founder and CEO Epi Ludvik Nekaj is one of a number of worldwide contributory authors of a new book, "Crowdfunding for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation." Reading this book will provide insight on the changes taking place in crowdfunding,...
The UK’s Sunday Times recently reported on blockchain newcomer Zcash rivalling virtual currency Bitcoin with its advantage of complete anonymity. Related blockchain reputation and security issues are items we have recently covered at Crowdsourcing Week with articles...
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – NASA turning to crowdsourcing for its lunar mission; making the most out of crowdsourcing; crowdsourcing turning creative directors into curators and more ... Uber loses right to classify UK...
The crowd economy represents a profound shift in the way we think about work – a shift that’s already well underway. According to research by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and UNI Europa, around 11% of online adults in the UK aged 16-75,...
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – Kenyans launching campaigns on Twitter to fix their roads; crowdsourcing cellphone data to help guide urban revitalization; crowdsourcing being used to raise awareness for breast cancer and more...
It is always best to get your offer right before launch. So hopefully you will not find yourself in the position where you have a failing campaign on your hands, but what if you need to rescue an offer after it has already launched? Truthfully, it is going to be much...
Ernst & Young (EY) has extended its range of advisory services by acquiring MillionYou, leader in the crowdsourcing market in Poland. With this acquisition, EY clients will benefit from business knowledge with the unlimited possibilities offered by crowdsourcing....
This is perhaps rather an outmoded question, isn’t it, more suited to a “jobs for life” culture. What occupations can people choose that aren’t going to disappear over the next 25 years or so. If Uber has its way automated vehicles will put paid to many taxi and lorry...
You work hard, provide for your children, and their quality of life eventually exceeds your own. At least that’s how the world is supposed to work. When global economic disaster hit in 2008 this long-established truth was blown away with people’s homes, livelihoods...
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – crowdsourcing determining climate change effects; GOP crowdsourcing Trump cabinet suggestions; NASA crowdsourcing Jupiter research and many more ... How crowdsourcing will help determine climate...
The internet is playing a bigger role in our lives, at work, buying our groceries, managing our finances, sharing social experiences and otherwise living our lives online. And more and more of us are studying online, at our own pace and at the times we choose....
