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From Centralised & Decentralised to Distributed Networks

Amazing insights and thought provoking ideas on the crowd economy stormed Brussels today. International and national speakers and thought leaders presented their respective keynotes on the best practices of crowdsourcing in the consumer, corporate, and community...

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5 Reasons to Make a Last Minute Plan for CSW Europe 2015

By this time, attendees and speakers are on their way to Brussels for the CSW Europe 2015. With the participation of top level Belgian government ministers in this unique and comprehensive 5-day crowd economy conference. Join us as we debate and discuss the...

CSW Europe 2015 Gathers Crowd Economy Decision-Makers

CSW Europe 2015 Gathers Crowd Economy Decision-Makers

For immediate release: 8 October 2015: Crowdsourcing Week’s cutting edge 5-day conference, CSW Europe 2015 , will take place in Brussels from 19-23 October 2015. During the week, you will learn about people-powered solutions that will help foster exponential...

Technology and Crowds, we #Crowdchat with Theo Priestley

Technology and Crowds, we #Crowdchat with Theo Priestley

Smart cities, big data, platforms, and crowds, so what’s next? As we live in the age of abundance, how can we really take advantage of these resources? How are we going to face the future with technology and the crowds as the front liners? Find out and chime in your...

The Syrian Refugee Crisis: The People Respond

The Syrian Refugee Crisis: The People Respond

The Syrian refugee crisis is a tragic reminder of how humanity needs to respond to a slew of new problems that we are not sure how to handle. No one has all the answers, but we must begin somewhere. Before all of the strategic and formal programs that can emerge to...

New Speakers To Talk Crowdsourced Cities

The speaker line-up for CSW Europe 2015 just got even more interesting. We are proud to present 5 more innovators ready to bring cutting edge information on crowd economy applications to the stage in Brussels, October 19-23. Take a peek into their bios and the topics...

Idea Exchange with Switzerland’s Innovators and Change Makers

Were you at #CSWGeneva? Crowdsourcing Week along with our partner Catalyx put on a great event that brought together top practitioners from Geneva and rest of Europe on stage in one action-packed day. The agenda succeeded in turning up the volume on the collaborative...

Workshop: Startups Will Learn to Accelerate Through Crowds

It is that time of the year again. CSW’s Startup Workshop has been a sold out feature in the past and this year too we have an impressive lineup of speakers to help startup founders really harness the latest crowd tools. The 2015 CSW Startup Workshop will be...

Crowdsourcing with a Local Focus for Global Impact

Crowdsourcing Week Summit traveled to the Arctic Circle, March 12 &13 in the remote Swedish Laplands to observe, share and highlight the community applications of crowdsourcing that can have widespread global impact. In Voullerim, a small town of 800 people,...

16 Tweets That Summed Up the SOLD OUT #CSWVenice

The feedback and stories from the SOLD OUT #CSWVenice, held March 5&6 at H Farm Ventures could be summed up in one word – “inspirational”. One of our YAP fellows, Alessandro Cassarotti- Empleko put it perfectly, “Inspirational. It was a...

CSW Summit Jakarta Rallies

  This week’s CSW Summit Jakarta  was a great success with a packed audience that soaked in very relevant topics on crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.  Jakarta is the first of a 4-city tour on the road to Crowdsourcing Week Global 2015, the largest global...

Top 9 Advances in Crowdsourced Applications To Watch Out

An edited version of this post first appeared on Virgin. Crowdsourcing in 2014 has experienced tremendous transformations and played a major role in the convergence of technology, business, and disruptive ideas to make the world a global stage of infinite...

OurCrowd’s Investor Summit Showcases Israeli Startup Ecosystem

OurCrowd’s Global Investor Summit  (Dec 9-10 in Jerusalem, Israel) will bring together an A-list selection of cutting-edge Israeli startups, experienced angel investors, and a diverse array of industry professionals, advisors and mentors,  Who is OurCrowd?...

How Will the Crowd Economy Impact the Next Billion?

The third edition of Crowdsourcing Week Global 2015 will take place on April 20 – 24 at Singapore’s inspiring Genexis Theatre at Fusionopolis. The week-long conference will focus on the promise and future of the crowd economy with the 2015 theme  “Crowd...

Uber Lesson 101: Focus on the Public Before the PR

How can a week be so messed up for anyone? If you’ve not been snowed in with Snovember in the US, you would probably know the company in question is Uber. News from Uber has dominated my feed for all the wrong reasons — and when it rains its pours they...

Smart City Collaboration: Pay Phone Booths Become Free Hotspots

What is the future of public telephone booths, many of them decommissioned or just plain neglected? Of course many have been creatively repurposed. But these out-of-date installation now have a bigger calling. New York City Plans to replace its public telephone booths...