Category: Crowdsourcing
Customer Collaboration and Co-creation Help Businesses Tackle Covid-19 Setbacks
In many countries, the hospitality industry shutdown during the pandemic lockdowns has caused the potential closure of many suppliers. This is particularly true for those that relied on business-to-business sales, where a number...
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Crowdsourced Open Innovation Accelerated a Covid-19 Ventilator Solution
It is widely acknowledged that collective intelligence delivers better solutions compared to a limited number of team members working on an innovation project. However, what is not talked about enough is the effect of this open...
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Reimagining Learning: Hauling Education in to the 21st Century
Covid-19 has created an opportunity for students from elementary-age to graduate school to benefit from crowdsourcing and online classes. What does that mean for the future? Education is a marketplace. Schools, colleges, and...
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Citizen Scientists Continue to Boost Valuable Ecological Research
A wide range of ecological projects based on crowdsourced Citizen Science models are now being undertaken around the world, at local, national and international scales. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, established in 1976,...
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In Transparency We Trust: Why Transparency and Trust Are Crucial for Crowdsourcing
Have you heard about Edelman Trust Barometer? This is a popular trust and credibility survey conducted annually by Edelman Intelligence, a global insight and analytics consultancy. The 2020 edition of the Barometer says that...
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Crowdsourcing Unknown Details of a City’s Complex Public Transport Service
Mexico City is a sprawling metropolis that is home to almost 22 million people. Even though a 2016 crowdsourcing effort created a map of the routes serviced by self-employed bus drivers to make it easier to navigate the city, an...
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Consumer Behavior During the Pandemic: Current Changes and Future Prospects
Since the beginning of the pandemic, it was clear that it will change consumer behavior once and for all. The pandemic has also shown us how little we know about responsible consumption. It became clear when people started...
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How Crowdsourcing Solved the Riddle of a Twister
For most of his life, Anton Seimon has been fascinated by the dynamics and formation of some of the strongest forces on Earth – tornadoes. Yet the scientific community did not know for sure whether tornadoes formed from the sky...
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How Open Innovation Enables External Communities to Solve Mining Industry Challenges
This article from Matt Burns at Unearthed Solutions gives a fresh breakdown of the structured stages of an open innovation prize challenge. Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, Unearthed Solutions helps its clients in the...
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Can Artificial Intelligence have a Conscious Sense of Right and Wrong?
How each of us has coped with the Covid-19 pandemic has shone an unblinking spotlight on our actions. Whether as a high risk front-line worker or a person who has been self-isolating, a government or corporate decision-maker,...
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