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!
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreToday, 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.
Read MoreColleen 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.
Read MoreWhat a week! The first global conference, in Singapore from June 3-7, that focussed on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open innovation was a resounding success.
Read MoreThe Oxford English Dictionary has added ‘crowdsourcing’ to its famous lexicon, highlighting its prevalent usage today!
Read MoreCrowdcentric business models are disrupting the way we start, scale or diversify businesses today and day 3 of programming at Crowdsourcing Week highlighted just that.
Read MoreAaannd 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.
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