Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a plan to get the world unconnected citizens connected via a mobile data or internet connection. The reason Mark Zuckerberg says this is important is because unconnected citizens are losing out the knowledge economy propelling the connected world.
Nadeem Ashraf
Copenhagen: Innovation Begins at a Public Park
Have you been to public places that discourages a good conversation, has uncomfortable seating or is just not inviting? Copenhagen thinks about public spaces in a dramatically opposite way.
Imagine a space that allows to swing and relax, admire the clouds and even talk to fellow citizens doing the same. Copenhagen has created public spaces with hammocks that invite you to use them creatively and play!
Breaking Down Farmers’ Knowledge Barriers in Developing Countries
We see advances in technology almost everyday. But the rate at which these percolate to poor farmers in developing countries is slow enough to throw them into a vicious poverty cycle.
The team at Barefoot Lightning is trying to change that via their Talisman mobile project that brings together multiple disciplines from agriculture, business, development and psychology to provide farmers with content and tools which enable them to help themselves.
Fund a Startup: CSW Winning Startups Go LIVE on RocketHub
The team at Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) is excited to announce that the three winning startups from our Startup Challenge in June have just launched their crowdfunding campaigns on RocketHub.
What is the Potential of The Crowd Economy?
What is the crowd economy? You may know it as the sharing or collaborative economy that presents an economic opportunity for ordinary citizens to monetize idle resources like an extra bedroom, tools or their car. But it also includes crowdfunding, crowdsourced services and crowd-lancing.
Turn Social Media Posts Into Memorable Stories with BrickFlow
Today, we are pleased and proud to introduce one of our Startup Challenge Winners from Crowdsourcing Week 2013 Singapore – Brickflow!
We all use a number of different social media platforms to share our thoughts and experiences.What if you could pull together all those entries and create a more visual and engaging story. Now there is an app for that! Brickflow is an app for making curated social media slideshows in a matter of seconds. You can build memorable stories and collections with your content from Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and more. It’s just like playing with Legos.
Will you Crowdsource your Haircut?
Colleen Flanigan, the coral reef sculptor and TED Senior Fellow, didn’t have time to get a haircut before TEDGlobal back in June. So in the spirit of the conference, themed ‘Radical Openness,’ she crowdsourced one instead, letting dozens of conference-goers each take one snip of her hair.
Crowdsourcing Week 2013: 300 Delegates, 23 Countries, 1 Week
What a week! The first global conference, in Singapore from June 3-7, that focussed on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open innovation was a resounding success.
Crowdsourcing Debuts in the Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary has added ‘crowdsourcing’ to its famous lexicon, highlighting its prevalent usage today!
Crowdsourced Models Disrupting Business as Usual
Crowdcentric business models are disrupting the way we start, scale or diversify businesses today and day 3 of programming at Crowdsourcing Week highlighted just that.
Crowdsourcing Week Announces Winners of the Startup Challenge
Aaannd we have the winners of the Startup Challenge! We have four winners and they are all some great apps and with global representation from Greece, France, India/UK and Germany! The startups were picked on the basis of pitch, business model and crowdfunding potential.
Citizen Empowerment Is All about YOU
Can citizens be empowered through crowdsourcing? Can we co-create our own constitution? Can we help our government to design better policy? Can we help industry and scientists solve some of the biggest problems in healthcare? Can we build better communities through cooperation?
Best Practices for Brand Engagement, Crowdsourcing for Creatives
It is finally here! The first global conference on crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding is underway in Singapore and the atmosphere is electric with some stellar speakers and delegates from all over the world.
Tuesday is SOLD OUT! AirAsia X, Presidential Office of the Philippines and Pirate 3D join on Wednesday & Thursday
As we gear up for Crowdsourcing Week 2013 starting Monday, June 3 – we have some exciting additions to our program. We are SOLD OUT for access to day 2, Tuesday, June 4. It is going to be a packed audience with some great content and opportunity to network with some of the brightest minds in marketing. We have added some last minute gems to our line-up on Wednesday and Thursday. Don’t miss it!
Crowdsourcing Week’s Official Music Score Competition Announces Winner
Girish Patro, an amateur yet accomplished student of music from Centurion University, Odisha,India has won the Global Fusion crowdsourced music competition organized by Crowdsourcing Week via Talenthouse India.
José María Figueres: Crowd Intelligence Can Solve Big Issues
José María Figueres is a businessman, politician and no stranger to innovation. As President of Costa Rica (1994-1998) at the age of 39, he created a comprehensive national development strategy based on the tenets of sustainability: sound economics, investment in human development, and a strong alliance with nature. Now, as President of the Carbon War Room, he is working closely with futuristic businessmen like Richard Branson to find solutions to climate change that are profitable to the environment and business.
Watch this video where he talks about the potential of the crowd to solve problems for humanity.
“Crowd Design for Good” Competition Announces Winners
Crowdsourcing Week 2013 is thrilled to announce the 5 top designs for our “Crowd Design for Good” campaign that crowdsources art for fun and a great cause. Crowdsourcing Week partnered with 99designs & Kiva to empower developing communities around the world through a t-shirt design competition.
Vote for Crowdsourcing Week’s Official Music Score, Crowdsourced Of Course!
Crowdsourcing Week and Talenthouse organized the Global Fusion competition that invited the artistic community to submit a music score that represented a global flavor to resonate with Crowdsourcing Week’s agenda- to bring the global community on crowdsourcing together in Singapore. Now is the time to acknowledge the efforts of the artists and vote for your favorite track. The most popular melody will be played at the opening gala night on June 3, 2013 in Singapore.
Crowdsourcing Week Offers Crowdfunding Workshop For Startups
We are pleased to announce the Crowdfunding Workshop for Startups —the first one offered in Asia—that will give entrepreneurs like you the opportunity to pitch your idea, learn about and explore the unlimited potential in crowd finance. You will network with industry crowdfunding experts while collaborating with other innovators.
Shelley Kuipers: Participation is The New Brand
Chaordix is an early supporter of Crowdsourcing Week and Shelley is on our Board of Advisors. She will be delivering a talk on Growing Global Brands through Crowdsourcing in Singapore. In this presentation, Shelley will reveal how brands are being transformed by tapping the insights of their crowds. Specific case examples will demonstrate how global brands are successfully incorporating digital crowdsourcing technologies and techniques into their enterprises. We invited Shelley to share her thoughts on the crowdsourcing markets and why brands are paying attention to crowds.
Will Pressure from the Crowd Help Improve Your Health?
You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local defibrillators. Via TED, Lucien Engelen is a technologist...