Category: Crowdsourcing
How to Organise a Successful Prize Challenge
by Clive Reffell | Feb 15, 2021 | Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation
Prizes can spur all types of innovation and R&D, and the use of prize challenges to accelerate R&D is experiencing a boom. Many organizations and governments around the world are launching prizes to accelerate R&D,...
Read MoreTop 10 Freelancing Platforms
by Clive Reffell | Feb 1, 2021 | Future of Work, Online Communities
Jobs for skilled freelancers are booming, and it doesn’t matter whether your skill is in marketing, tech, design, law, logistics or accounting. More and more companies are turning to gig platforms to find skilled freelancers to...
Read MoreHow the Power of the Crowd Overcame the “Wall Street GameStop Plot”
by Clive Reffell | Jan 30, 2021 | Crowd Finance, Mass Collaboration
Market analysts have been stunned by the crowd-power of an army of day traders that was able to push a stock price way beyond conventional valuation measures and inflict huge losses on hedge funds. Hedge funds are part of the...
Read MoreHow to Protect your Cybersecurity when Working in the Crowd Economy
by Oliver Smith | Jan 27, 2021 | Crowdsourcing, Future of Work
In any difficult times, fraudsters and malefactors always step up their activities, which can lead to disastrous consequences for any business. The massive and hasty transition of companies to remote work has led to an increase...
Read MoreTop 5 Speech Recognition AI Platforms
by Clive Reffell | Jan 21, 2021 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Future of Work
Speech recognition technology is a form of AI. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) enables machines to register a set of words they hear used in spoken language, match them to a text transcription, and then search multiple...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing to Accelerate this New Decade
by Clive Reffell | Jan 19, 2021 | Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation
2020’s upheaval of lifestyles and work practices has seen many business winners and losers. Social distancing, and in some countries curfews, have floored many leisure and hospitality companies. Travel clampdowns have grounded...
Read More10 Indispensable Open Innovation Platforms for Global Corporations
by Clive Reffell | Jan 14, 2021 | Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation
Welcome to an update of what proved to be a popular article looking at some great open innovation platforms. Innovation is crucial to survive in today’s disruptive and fast moving industrial and commercial landscape. It’s...
Read MoreUnlocking Human Potential Through the Power of the Crowd
by Epi Ludvik | Jan 9, 2021 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Online Communities, Open Innovation
We are at the beginning of a period of exponential growth through harnessing human intellect with intelligent technology. The pace of change is often said to get faster and faster, the increase in the world’s collective...
Read MoreUnderstanding the Power of the Crowd: Singapore Aims to be Asia’s Centre of Open Innovation
by Clive Reffell | Dec 17, 2020 | Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation
Could you imagine a tiny country like Singapore aiming to lead the acceleration of Open Innovation in Asia? Its population of under six million belies its economic strength and vitality, and Enterprise Singapore is doing just...
Read MoreAutomatic Speech Recognition Systems and Crowdsourcing
by Clive Reffell | Dec 4, 2020 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing
A wide range of industry sectors are using speech technology, helping people to save time, improve effectiveness and efficiency, and ultimately even save lives. Key sectors where advances are being made include consumer...
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