DePINs, Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Networks, mark the convergence of crowdsourcing, gig economy, AI, and Web3 on decentralised blockchain.
Sharing Economy
Peer to peer trading of spare or surplus capacity to provide items or perform services
Decentralization and Deglobalization
Decentralization and Deglobalization deliver a more even distribution of power in society, and it’s Crowdsourcing Week’s theme in 2022
A #1 Business Model of the Decade: the Crowd Economy
Almost two years ago Peter Diamandis, founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, tipped the crowd economy to be a top business model of the decade.
“Power of the Crowd” Powered Sharing Economy IPO Successes
This month, Airbnb and restaurant meal delivery service Door Dash floated on the US public stock market with resounding success, making immediate and spectacular gains. Then they fall back, and some commentators became alarmist, as if something was going wrong. Here...
A Sharing Economy Major Player Plans a Return to its Roots
The sharing economy is all about interface between crowds. Such as a crowd of car drivers and a crowd of people who want to go somewhere. Or as in the case of Airbnb, a crowd of people looking for somewhere to stay and a crowd of residents who want to earn a little...
Generation Share: The Changepreneurs Saving the Planet
There’s a new generation of entrepreneurs. They see themselves as change-makers, activists building businesses to save the planet. Like Greta Thunberg, they know that time is running out. Fed up with what they see as ‘corporate inertia’, they’re creating breakthrough...
Lessons from a Collaborative Lifestyle in Swedish Lapland
Midway through the two-centre CSW Arctic // Europe 2018 conference, everyone including delegates, speakers, our CSW Sweden Team and our local supporters made their way from the coastal city of Luleå to Vuollerim, a rather remote inland village with a population of 800...
A Sharing Economy Newcomer Aims to Disrupt the UK Energy Market
We recently ran articles on the increasing decentralization of sustainable energy production and energy distribution . In August 2017 a new type of disruptive energy supplier launched in the UK. After successfully raising almost £500,000 through reward crowdfunding,...
Humans, Robots and the Future of Work
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...
Self Storage Got Bigger with Spacer
An Australian entrepreneur who has created Spacer.com has his eyes on the US shared warehousing space market. Spacer is cost-free to storage space owners, and like Uber and Airbnb, the space renters pay a small transaction fee. I had a chance to connect with Michael...
Harvesting the Power of the Crowd to Implement Reverse Logistics in a Circular Economy
How can used mobile phones be collected via reverse logistics, throughout the city of Amsterdam, to facilitate replacement, repair, remanufacturing and recycling? You know your old mobile phone? Yea, that’s right, the one you have lying around in a drawer somewhere....
The crowd economy at work in recreational boating
Among the hundreds of exhibitors at the 2017 London Boat Show are several operating with crowd economy business models. This article features three of them, the oldest being twelve years old and the youngest is a brand new company that launched at the show. Beds on...
Smart Cities, Sharing Economy and Mobility at CSW Europe 2016
Big data is a market currently estimated to be worth around $40bn and projected to reach $66.8bn by 2021, according to Ben Rossi in Information Age. And up to October 2016 there have been 22,800 questions posted on Quora related to big data. Some less...
Decentralized energy’s the future, sooner than you think (Part 2)
In my last post I looked at some of the technologies that are ushering in the decentralized energy revolution, such as cheap solar power, home batteries and the blockchain. But there’s another type of battery that could also change the way we store and use energy –...
Time banking – what is it and why should you bother?
Time banking members exchange skills and services for Time Credits and everyone’s time is worth the same
What role will platform cooperatives play in the sharing economy?
We look at a number of platform cooperatives that are starting to gain traction in the sharing economy.
Is Africa being transformed by the crowd economy?
There is a radical change taking place in Africa, much of which is as a result of the emergence of the crowd economy. There are two key underlying reasons for this assertion. 1. Not only does Africa have a population that is forecast to grow from one billion today to...
The crowd economy is growing rapidly, so what should corporations do?
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...
GM and Lyft Joint Venture: A Foray on Smart Mobility?
Will the convergence of sharing economy and automotive industry transform the future of transportation? This week’s breaking news says so. The biggest direct investment deal so far this New Year is General Motors (GM) investing $500 million in the ridesharing...
Crowdsourcing News Roundup – December 11
Holiday season is already here and in a few more weeks, it will be 2016! And for this week, here is a curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team. From Goldman Sachs...
8 Platforms Solving Mobility Globally
As I write this article, Beijing has issued its first ever Red Alert on account of lethal air pollution. The “Airpocalyptic” view from my desk made me question the way we look at ridesharing and on-demand platforms. They are not just the next profit-making startup...