Debates on the benefits of and threats from artificial intelligence are moving on. Projections of mass unemployment due to the loss of routine work are becoming more balanced by realisations that maybe 65% of children in primary school today are going to have jobs...
I learned recently that architects are involved in only 2% of the newly constructed built environment in the UK. A week later, a report released based on a housing design audit for England that had examined over 140 housing developments built since 2007 revealed that...
Projections show that feeding an estimated world population of 9.1 billion people in 2050 will require raising overall food production by some 70% from 2005/07 levels, reported the High Level Expert Forum – How to Feed the World in 2050. This prompts an imminent need...
For many of us it’s the time of year when thoughts turn to gift-giving. Gifting a book to someone shows you have thought about their particular interests and searched for something that suits them as an individual. And a message in the book itself customises your gift...
Crowdsourcing Week partnered with Tam Development to hold the first crowdsourcing event staged in Saudi Arabia. Why it is important The sharing economy is projected to be a $335bn market by 2025 . The interactive event introduced the invited audience to several...
When considering crowdsourcing across an entire continent, this can be only a cross-section of what has caught our attention. The selected examples have been chosen to show the flexibility and almost ubiquitous nature of crowdsourcing as a powerful tool for aims...
Each day, more technologies enable the practice of crowdsourcing to become more sophisticated and viable. From Airbnb for stays to BlaBlaCar and Careem in transportation, crowdsourcing and sharing economy companies have shifted behaviors in the marketplace for good....
When I set up my marketing business I sketched out a rough idea for a company logo and wondered what to do next. I’d heard of an online design service where I could search for someone to complete the task for me at a starting price of $5. It seemed silly not to give...
Early this year a submission from Tam Development made it to the shortlist of nominees in the BOLD Awards 2019. In partnership with 20 government and private entities in Saudi Arabia and the wider Arab region, and under the leadership of their CEO and co-founder...
Within the 30-50 years available to try and correct climate change, could weaponised robots powered by artificial intelligence be a bigger threat to humanity?
The focus of CSW Global 2019 was to unlock crowd participation breakthroughs and explore the use of open innovation techniques and practices becoming more mainstream – becoming the next big thing in our lives. CSW’s Founder and CEO Epi Ludvik kick-started Day One by...
At first glance the open innovation sector can appear a crowded and perhaps confusing space. A closer look reveals many platforms have focused down on to one area of specialist business interest. OpenIDEO is one such platform and provides an interface for social...
Aurelie Wen is Managing Partner at Agorize for North America, based in Montreal, Canada. Agorize is a 100-strong open innovation tech company that brings together companies and an astonishing five million innovators from 185 countries. It is “the missing link between...
Agorize began as a French-based open innovation challenge platform that connects businesses and innovators from all over the world. Since it started in 2010 it has hosted over 200 challenges, connected with five million innovators from 185 countries, and earlier this...
Crowdsourcing Week and the crowdsourcing design platform 99designs launched an online t-shirt design contest to help the homeless in San Francisco
In our July 2019 article that featured Surcle, the open innovation challenge platform in the electronics hardware sector, we mentioned briefly a challenge that was live at the time. Zollner Elektronik AG had launched The Protocol Converter Challenge in an effort to...
The banking and financial services sector is becoming more strategically focused and technologically advanced. It has to respond to growing consumer expectations while trying to defend market share against an increasing array of competitors who are each trying to eat...
After six successful years of events that focus on all the paradigms that come with the crowd economy, our #CSWGlobal19 conference next month in San Francisco will take a huge leap forward, solidifying its status as THE learning and networking experience that unlocks...
Mathesia is a crowdsourcing-based innovation platform headquartered in Italy, though available globally, that brings together a highly specialized crowd of about 3,000 vetted mathematicians and data scientists from around the world. Since launching in 2014, Mathesia’s...
We are now quite used to seeing the disruption that’s taking place in many marketplaces due to the combination of new technology and mass connectivity in the hands of visionary startups, unencumbered by the ‘rules’ of established business models. Though how about when...
As the population grows at an ever faster and faster rate, transforming how the world feeds itself is going to be a necessity. Even though up to a third of the food currently produced goes to waste, incremental improvements to current practices aren’t going to be...