Browse posts about the Collaborative Economy, also known as the Sharing Economy – a collaborative economic model built around the sharing of human and physical resources by people & organizations.
Using AI for training data unlocks a powerful tool that can enable organizations to make better decisions, improve efficiency, and enhance customer experiences. When properly implemented, AI can be used to power intelligent technology, helping organizations to gain...
In today's fast-paced world, online payments have become an essential part of our daily lives. The convenience and speed of digital payments have made them a preferred method for most consumers. However, with the increasing number of online transactions, as well as...
The strategic importance of AI technology is growing exponentially across industries and shows no signs of slowing down. Many businesses are exploring and investing in new solutions to stay competitive in the age of AI — from banking using AI to crunch big data, to...
Crowdsourcing supports entrepreneurs by helping them to be more efficient, effective and successful in developing and growing their businesses. It supports entrepreneurship in several valuable ways, including validating and improving an initial idea, generating...
Our theme for 2023 is the Creator Economy, and how it sits in the context of Crowds, Collaboration, Communities and Connectors. The start point for this is that millions of ordinary people take advantage of opportunities to create the content that we consume online....
Few people in developed economies remain untouched by the gig economy. Whether that’s directly through working in it (like 3 in 20 of UK working adults), receiving deliveries at home, taking an Uber or something similar, or working with an outsourced service provider....
Massive numbers of employees are considering changing jobs in The Great Resignation, a post-Covid collective re-examination of priorities and work and lifestyle balance: how to work; where to work; taking more self-responsibility; exploring gig economy opportunities...
Crowdsourcing Week’s Theme of 2022 I believe 2022 will be a pivotal year for how we live and work, and for many aspects of the crowd economy. Decentralization and deglobalization deliver a more even distribution of power in society, and it’s our theme in 2022. There...
Almost two years ago Peter Diamandis, the entrepreneur perhaps best known for being founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, wrote his prediction of seven business models that will capture and dominate the 2020s. At the top of his list was the Crowd Economy....
Education is going through a massive transition. A long-established structure, largely unchanged since the 19th century, has been forced to finally grasp 21st century technology, plus its attitudes and behaviours, at a comparative overnight pace. Different factors,...
Outside of gamer communities, AR and VR came to many people’s attention when the Oculus Rift headset creators generated $2.5 million of orders through Kickstarter crowdfunding in 2012. Four years later, Facebook bought the business for $2 billion. There are several...
At Crowdsourcing Week we champion the benefits of open innovation as a means to accelerate the development of breakthroughs, solutions and inventions. A growing number of organisations utilise open innovation platforms to go beyond in-house R&D teams, who work in...