Follow the news today and you’re likely to read something about how crowdsourcing is aiding advances in the robotics industry. This week alone we’ve seen stories concerning robots entering the healthcare industry, further advances in self-driving car technology, and...
In the internet of things, we’re all connected, all the time, to everything. It’s where the world is moving—your home, your car, your phone, your work. It’s like you can make a virtual copy of yourself to do things that would have required your physical presence even...
This is a blog post written by our Managing Director in Europe, Etienne Verbist, sharing his thoughts and experiences in Kosovo. Crowdsourcing Week recently hosted a summit in Gjakova, Kosovo and it was special for a number of reasons. Kosova is the birth country of...
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A guest post by Volcrowe submitted by Dr. Eun Young Oh, a senior research associate at the University of Portsmouth Business School. VOLCROWE (Volunteer and Crowdsourcing Economics) is a research collaboration between the Universities of Portsmouth, Oxford,...
[INSPIRED BY RED BULL} Do you want to leverage the power of crowds? Do you want to turn a crowd into a community with purpose? Clear is that crowds become more effective at “anything” when they are enabled by systems and they are engaged by soul. Better systems allow...
This is a guest post by Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero, Principal Administrator at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. Two strong trends are emerging in the western world that, at first glance, appear contradictory: on the one...
Crowdsourcing is growing quickly in Europe and the number of organisations tapping into the crowd to create scalable solutions continues to raise steadily. Crowdsourcing is impacting various sectors from transportation to finance, to education and manufacturing. The...
Mark Philpott, Corporate leader turned social entrepreneur and homeless man by choice, gave a talk at CSWGlobal14 that was a revelation. This post first appeared on his blog where he talks about his experiences at CSW Global in Singapore. I have just spent some time...
Nick NM Yap, the CEO of ROCKI, serial entrepreneur and a veteran of two successful Kickstarter projects (for ROCKI and the Omate Smartwatch) recounts his CSWGlobal14 experiences. Nick simply is a rockstar. Follow him @addlikefollow. Crowdsourcing Week Global, when I...
Speaking at the inaugural Crowdsourcing Week here in Singapore, Sean Moffitt shared that crowdsourcing is growing at an exponential rate of 88% over the last 8 years. Although it only yields 7 million results on Google compared to Social Media’s 4.2 billion results, the phenomena is affecting every aspect of society.
A few weeks back I found myself stuck with a clichéd phrase in my head “The world is changing so very fast!” I was attending Crowdsourcing Week Singapore and was completely fascinated by the variety of presentations and diverse points of view on life, work and play that were being raised.
Here is a quick snapshot of what might become of our tomorrow, all thanks to the wisdom of the crowd:
Uta attended Crowdsourcing Week 2013 in Singapore and put down her thoughts via this post that originally appeared on her blog.
5 signs that let you know that you are at a conference at the forefront of current thinking: