Human versus AI intelligence is not a binary confrontation. 2026 will see the growth of human AI collaboration to create hybrid intelligence systems.
Nadeem Ashraf
Theme of the Year 2025: “The Age of Augmented Collaboration”
The Age of Augmented Collaboration, where human ingenuity and emerging technologies converge to redefine how we collaborate, create, and innovate.
Shaping the Future through Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs)
DePINs, Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Networks, mark the convergence of crowdsourcing, gig economy, AI, and Web3 on decentralised blockchain.
Emerging HI + AI: Unleashing Collective Intelligence in 2024
The Age of HI + AI will see the fusion of human intelligence with machine capabilities to propel us into new frontiers of collective intelligence.
The Year of Creator Economy 2023 – Crowds, Collaboration, Communities and Connectors
Our theme for 2023 is the Creator Economy, and how it sits in the context of Crowds, Collaboration, Communities and Connectors.
Decentralization and Deglobalization
Decentralization and Deglobalization deliver a more even distribution of power in society, and it’s Crowdsourcing Week’s theme in 2022
Crowdsourcing Advertising Content in a Changing Industry
The concept of crowdsourcing remains sometimes misunderstood, and can still be confused by non-users with outsourcing. Before I launched Crowdsourcing Week in 2012 I ran a virtual advertising agency in New York City, and so I feel perfectly well qualified to talk...
Will Digitalism Provide a Beneficial Social Structure or Help Create Greater Divisiveness?
Opportunities created by digitization, and the massive boost to personal mass-communication that smartphones delivered, have always excited and fascinated me. I founded my virtual advertising agency Ludvik & Partners in New York City in 2008. In 2012 I launched...
Unlocking Human Potential Through the Power of the Crowd
We are at the beginning of a period of exponential growth through harnessing human intellect with intelligent technology. The pace of change is often said to get faster and faster, the increase in the world’s collective knowledge is certainly growing faster and...
The Impact and Roles of Crowdsourcing in the Information Age
The coming together of miniaturization that began with microfilm, the advent of digital technology, and the proliferation of personal computers and then other portable devices, has enabled governments, commercial businesses, non-profit organizations, and billions of...
How Crowdsourcing Measures Can Tackle Mass Unemployment
In the seven years since I launched Crowdsourcing Week the Covid-19 pandemic is undoubtedly the biggest, and most awful global phenomenon. The pandemic lockdowns announced by most national governments meant the worldwide pool of available skilled labor grew virtually...
Reimagining Learning: Hauling Education in to the 21st Century
Covid-19 has created an opportunity for students from elementary-age to graduate school to benefit from crowdsourcing and online classes. What does that mean for the future? Education is a marketplace. Schools, colleges, and universities provide a physical interface...
Can Artificial Intelligence have a Conscious Sense of Right and Wrong?
How each of us has coped with the Covid-19 pandemic has shone an unblinking spotlight on our actions. Whether as a high risk front-line worker or a person who has been self-isolating, a government or corporate decision-maker, an employer or an employee, old or young,...
A Crowdsourcing Rallying Cry to Harness the Power of Crowds
History shows that crowdsourcing is not new. Today, a proliferation of open innovation platforms encourages skilled experts throughout the world to compete for cash and status by offering solutions to an array of prize challenges, whether as individuals or as...
BOLD // Crowd 2.0 Powered by AI and Machine Learning
This is our theme for Crowdsourcing Week in 2020: BOLD // Crowd 2.0 powered by AI and Machine Learning. It’s where crowdsourcing takes a major transformative step rather than a series of incremental ones. At the same time as recognizing crowdsourcing as a business...
I’ll Sadly Miss Two Leaders in the World of Innovation
With sad regret I have recently seen the passing of two people who left an indelible mark both on the world of innovation and on me personally. Academic, business leader, author and “management guru” Professor Clayton Christensen, and serial entrepreneur Leila Janah,...
Open Letter – Humans Are Born Innovators
A world without the Internet is unimaginable. Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee. Currently connecting around 4.3 billion people worldwide, which represents 57% of the total world population, the Internet is a core pillar of the modern information society. The highest usage...
What Does Spoof Storming of a US Air Force Base Tell Us About Public Trust?
The originally anonymous creator of a Facebook spoof has gone public to explain he meant the storming of Area 51 on September 20 – “to see them aliens” – as a joke. What got him to break cover was 1.9 million people (so far) clicking to say they’re going, with a...
“In order to have a breakthrough, you have to break something”
I wish I had come up with that line, but I must give credit to Joe Polish . It neatly sums up the times we’re living in, where the pace and scale of change are disrupting many established business models and social norms, and admittedly causing some damage to what...
Weekend Expeditions at CSW Global 2018
The Weekend Expeditions started at the National Air & Space Museum where Bud Holloway gave the group more than a 2 hour tour around space. Friday’s conference had ended with a panel discussion on how using open innovation input is an integral part of commercial...
10 Memorable Quotes from Singapore’s Founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew
As Singaporeans mourn for the loss of nation’s founding prime minister, we at Crowdsourcing Week would like to pay tribute to Lee Kuan Yew’s achievements in turning Singapore into one of the most progressive nations in the world today. He passed away peacefully at the...