How the impact of artificial intelligence and freelancing aka the gig economy is changing traditional workplace practices
Anyone currently participating in crowdsourcing and disruptive crowd economy-related business sectors is only too aware of the growing media coverage being given to “the future of work.” Media editors are keen to raise their audience levels, and stories of artificial...
Imagine you are in a coffee shop. You work for a global organization that has a workforce all over the world. These workforces are different though, they are not in one office but dispersed in coffee shops, at home, and co-working spaces. You slip on your...
This is a series of blog posts in relation to The Hyperloop of Innovation and Future of Work. First we worked in fields, then factories, and now everywhere and anytime through devices connected to the internet. But what’s next for the future of work? According to Jim...
The media and business portals these days are taking lot of interest in impact of (AI) Artificial Intelligence and (ML) Machine Learning. And they put emphasis on how professionals needs to get worried as many jobs will become obsolete due to these technologies and...
Decentralization is our theme for 2018. The word has rebellious and transformative connotations, stemming from the sometimes turbulent devolvement of historically central-held power over property, wealth and justice to regimes of democratic government, a right to work...
Recent CSW articles have looked at Sweden's role as a global leader of innovation and crowdsourcing. It is also the host country for our conference next March, CSW Arctic // Europe 2018. We are all aware the pace of change has become so rapid that educators find it...
Media coverage of crowdsourcing-related activities in the various sectors of the crowd economy landscape has graduated out of the specialist platforms focused on by the innovators and early adopters and in to a wider arena. It is widely expected that artificial...
“The Future of Jobs” Report published in 2016 by the World Economic Forum said: “By one popular estimate*, 65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don’t yet exist.” (*Source: McLeod, Scott and Karl...
Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future, it’s the present and increasing at a phenomenal rate driven by explosive growth of big data, inexpensive computing power and storage, and advanced algorithms like machine learning that enable accurate predictions to be...
Despite apparent greater control of a personal work/life balance open to remote workers and operators in the gig economy, these people often have higher levels of stress and sleep disruption. However, the flexibility offered by ICT has the potential to alter and...
Over the past few years I've watched artificial intelligence develop from a niche concern to a topic that regularly features in the national press. But while some people believe it could unlock a new golden age for humanity, and others - like Stephen Hawking - think...
What did you want to be when you grew up? This is perhaps rather an outmoded question, isn’t it, more suited to a “jobs for life” culture? What occupations can people choose that aren’t going to disappear over the next 25 years or so. If Uber has its way automated...
The crowd economy represents a profound shift in the way we think about work – a shift that’s already well underway. According to research by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and UNI Europa, around 11% of online adults in the UK aged 16-75,...
This is perhaps rather an outmoded question, isn’t it, more suited to a “jobs for life” culture. What occupations can people choose that aren’t going to disappear over the next 25 years or so. If Uber has its way automated vehicles will put paid to many taxi and lorry...
You work hard, provide for your children, and their quality of life eventually exceeds your own. At least that’s how the world is supposed to work. When global economic disaster hit in 2008 this long-established truth was blown away with people’s homes, livelihoods...
The second largest populated country in the world — India — is today the world’s third largest startup ecosystem where disruptors are bridging gaps in on-demand services, employment, resource utilization and digital literacy among other categories. But are these...
Deliveroo sparked a rebellion among a section of its London delivery workers after trying to impose a unilateral change to their pay structure. It was going to change from £7 per hour plus £1 per each delivery to a straight £3.75 per delivery. In essence this was a...
I’ve always said that crowdsourcing is about passion, talents, skills and tangible resources. It’s already a major part of many people’s lives and it manifests itself at a personal level through contributing surplus assets, such as a spare bedroom, car space on a...
In my last blog post, I talked about how disruptors are getting disrupted and elimination of the business ‘middle man.’ Today I want to look back at the first wave of the Crowd Economy and the impact it has made since its birth at the height of the last recession. But...
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...
For decades, HR recruiters were swept up in a tidal wave of résumés – swimming through thousands to spot the one person who might be the right fit for the company. But the tide has shifted. Recruiting is no longer a “throw out the net and see what we get” process, but...
They’re young, tech-savvy, and they embrace a mobile culture. They’re okay with their ‘traveling work spaces’— working cross timezones, anywhere in the world. Their social productivity is innate in the workflow—this new breed of uncollared workforce, mostly comprising...
As we head into CSW Europe in Copenhagen next week, Oct 14-16, we interviewed Flemming Binderup Gammelgaard, Chief Consultant at VIA University – Denmark’s largest university of applied science – Flemming works at the intersection of innovation, research and higher...
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...
