This blog shares some key insights on Equity Crowdfunding Dos And Don’ts, as discussed by equity crowdfunding experts at the EU Startups Summit 2025.
Citizen Engagement
Interaction between citizens and governments to canvass and influence collective public opinion on civic policy-making and budget spending
Crowdsourced Urban Planning: Designing Cities with Community Input
Crowdsourced urban planning and design provides community input through open innovation challenges and prizes, crowdsourced data, and civic crowdfunding.
The Exciting Impact Of Crowdsourcing On Space Exploration
Crowdsourcing has transformed space exploration to include private companies, citizen scientists, and volunteers contributing data, ideas, and funding.
What Does The Future Hold For Donations Crowdfunding?
It has already made a significant impact on the way people support charitable causes, but what does the future hold for donations crowdfunding?
The Key Proposition and Value of Crowdsourcing: a Podcast with our Founder and CEO
The availability of low cost, high speed, low friction communications has enabled the value of crowdsourcing to make it an increasingly important activity in a wide range of business sectors. It has disrupted and altered the way we think about creating value. The...
Mobility and Sustainability in Smart Cities Requires Citizen Engagement and Tight Security
What is a Smart City? Smart cities use crowdsourced data for better analysis of behaviours and efficient resource management in urban areas. The term ‘smart cities’ refers to comprehensive connectivity in a built environment. It includes IoT...
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 article published in 2017 was hoping to...
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 emptying the shelves in the supermarkets all...
Same Coronavirus Threat, Different Responses Around the World
It is fascinating to see how different leaders choose to deal with a crisis like the coronavirus outbreak. Let’s compare three approaches: the “Populists,” the “Believers” and the “Proactives.” The Populists Solutions put forward by populist leaders who...
BOLD // Crowd 2.0 Powered by AI and Machine Learning
This is our theme for Crowdsourcing Week in 2020: BOLD // Crowd 2.0 powered by AI and Machine Learning. It’s where crowdsourcing takes a major transformative step rather than a series of incremental ones. At the same time as recognizing crowdsourcing as a business...
Democracy Advocate MiVote Expands to the UK
1947 the British politician Winston Churchill famously said “…democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” 70-plus years later, industrialised democracies are witnessing the decline of citizen...
Crowdsourcing Ideas Against Populism
If selfishness is a trigger of many issues in today’s modern democracies, as suggested in my previous article, populism could be regarded as a facilitator in this game. That’s the topic of this article, with an invitation to you to contribute with your thoughts and views. I would like to use the power of crowdsourcing to build on ideas.
Crowdsourcing Solutions for Democracy
Advanced modern civilizations that were thriving are now challenged by populism, nationalism and new leaders acting with little respect for social values or long term benefits for society as a whole. Some of the democratic foundations we have relied on for so long...
The Influence of Crowd Technology on Democracy
We live in changing times in which high levels of human migration to developed countries has generated a resurgence of nationalist, populist politics. A more confrontational political landscape is fuelled by deliberately misleading news, and social media anonymity has...
How Horizon State Leads the Blockchain Charge
The blockchain discussion is often focused on the financial benefits – indeed, you can often catch new folks interchange “bitcoin” and “blockchain” in common conversation. The impact, though, will go well beyond fiat currencies and business markets. One of the...
Q&A with Oren Alazraki, CEO of Horizon State
Horizon State has leveraged blockchain’s immutable distributed ledger technology to redesign the way that opinion is solicited, votes are cast, and collaborative decisions are made. Horizon State reshapes interactions between the public sector, wider businesses and...
Global Recognition for Horizon State from Davos Organizers
The World Economic Forum is the international, independent organisation behind the celebrated annual Davos event in Switzerland that under the attention of global media draws together 2,500 “business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global,...
Horizon State Blockchain Empowering the Vote and Our Philanthropy
How do you represent the crowd? For millennia, there have been many techniques to figure out the majority needs. Picture people raising their hands at an event, or clapping to choose the best choice, or submitting tiny pieces of paper to be tallied later. As we...
Blockchain Democracy: Fixing a Wrecked System
Crowdsourcing is a new term, possibly coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson to describe how businesses were using the internet to outsource work to the crowd. In reality, crowdsourcing has been around for thousands of years. In fact, our democratic system of...
Changing Government Through Crowdsourcing
We’ve had one of the oldest crowdsourcing examples right under our nose. We vote every single day, whether it is an election of our next world leader, a response to “What do we want to eat?” at the family dinner table, or among a circle of tribesman vocalizing our...
Mayor of London Has £1m For Community Projects Using Crowdfunding
Local communities in London are increasingly taking matters into their own hands, and using crowdfunding to bring much-needed projects to life.