Category: Sharing Economy
A Sharing Economy Major Player Plans a Return to its Roots
by Clive Reffell | Aug 21, 2020 | Collaborative Economy, Sharing Economy
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...
Read MoreGeneration Share: The Changepreneurs Saving the Planet
by Benita Matofska | Sep 4, 2019 | Collaborative Economy, Sharing Economy
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...
Read MoreLessons from a Collaborative Lifestyle in Swedish Lapland
by Clive Reffell | Mar 29, 2018 | CSW Conferences, News, Sharing Economy
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...
Read MoreA Sharing Economy Newcomer Aims to Disrupt the UK Energy Market
by Clive Reffell | Jan 3, 2018 | Collaborative Economy, Crowdfunding, Sharing Economy
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...
Read MoreHumans, Robots and the Future of Work
by Epi Ludvik | Nov 21, 2017 | cocreation, Collective Intelligence, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Future of Work, Sharing Economy
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...
Read MoreSelf Storage Got Bigger with Spacer
by Epi Ludvik | Apr 19, 2017 | Collaborative Economy, Sharing Economy
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....
Read MoreHarvesting the Power of the Crowd to Implement Reverse Logistics in a Circular Economy
by Epi Ludvik | Feb 24, 2017 | Citizen Engagement, cocreation, Collaborative Economy, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Sharing 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...
Read MoreThe crowd economy at work in recreational boating
by Clive Reffell | Jan 7, 2017 | Collaborative Economy, Sharing Economy
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...
Read MoreSmart Cities, Sharing Economy and Mobility at CSW Europe 2016
by Clive Reffell | Oct 12, 2016 | Collaborative Economy, CSW Conferences, News, Sharing Economy
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...
Read MoreDecentralized energy is the future – and it’s closer than you think (part two)
by Epi Ludvik | Oct 11, 2016 | Citizen Engagement, Collaborative Economy, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration, Sharing Economy
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...
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