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CSW Summit Bangalore on 10 September 2016 focuses on the Crowd Economy

CSW Summit Bangalore on 10 September 2016 focuses on the Crowd Economy

In partnership with Digital Empowerment Foundation, Crowdsourcing Week Summit Bangalore will bring crowdsourcing and the crowd economy to centre stage in our first event held in India. Indian and international speakers, including Osama Manzar, Founder and Director of...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 8

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 8

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team House leaders to vote on crowdfunding, Angel Investing Two bills are among more than 20 pieces of US...

$50m Ethereum heist had no easy answer

$50m Ethereum heist had no easy answer

This was not a drill. A week before the Brexit panic, panic gripped users and developers of the Ethereum blockchain when flagship application "The Dao" came under attack. The Dao is an example of a DAO: Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, a business whose rules are...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 1

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 1

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team How crowdsourcing will build the next $100 billion company Alphabet (formerly Google) Executive Chairman Eric...

A Recap of CSW Summit Johannesburg

A Recap of CSW Summit Johannesburg

CSW Summit Johannesburg on 24 June 2016 was Crowdsourcing Week’s first event in Africa. It was held on Day Two of the InnoLive 2016 conference presented by Innocentrix. The day’s presentations can be accessed here, and here is a brief recap on some of the event’s...

Choosing a crowdfunding platform that’s right for you

Choosing a crowdfunding platform that’s right for you

Once you’ve weighed the pros and cons of equity crowdfunding versus other ways of raising money, you as a company founder will still be faced by a bewildering array of options over funding portals. In any single country where the legislation has been passed, there can...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 23

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 23

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Crowdsourcing project to decode U.S Civil War telegrams The University of Minnesota in collaboration with The...

Digital currency Ethereum may have less than a month to live

Digital currency Ethereum may have less than a month to live

A $50m hack sent the value of digital currency Ethereum tumbling yesterday (June 17) from around $21 to below $15, reported Business Insider in Singapore in response to Ethereum's own blog post release. The money is currently currently sitting in a locked fund and...

Is Africa being transformed by the crowd economy?

Is Africa being transformed by the crowd economy?

There is a radical change taking place in Africa, much of which is as a result of the emergence of the crowd economy. There are two key underlying reasons for this assertion. 1. Not only does Africa have a population that is forecast to grow from one billion today to...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 17

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 17

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Arcade City Austin is crowdsourcing rides on Facebook With no Uber or Lyft, a group of 32,000 members has...

Countdown to Crowdsourcing Week’s first African Summit on June 24

Countdown to Crowdsourcing Week’s first African Summit on June 24

The crowd economy is set to take Africa by storm, and CSW Summit Johannesburg on the second day of Innolive 2016 on June 24 will focus on collaborative innovation with the overall theme of “The Sharing Economy – Unlocking Africa’s Potential.” Local and international...

CSW Summit Tehran Recap

CSW Summit Tehran Recap

CSW Summit Tehran on May 20 was Iran’s first crowdsourcing/crowd economy conference. The event was attended by over 250 delegates at the National Library of Iran who enjoyed inspirational panel sessions and presentations featuring a lineup of Iranian and international...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 10

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 10

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Crowdfunding mania all over According to Jacqueline Woo's article crowdfunding is expanding too fast! How can...

The crowd economy is growing rapidly, so what should corporations do?

The crowd economy is growing rapidly, so what should corporations do?

I’ve always said that crowdsourcing is about passion, talents, skills and tangible resources. It’s already a major part of many people’s lives and it manifests itself at a personal level through contributing surplus assets, such as a spare bedroom, car space on a...

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