Category: Citizen Engagement
Crowdsourcing Ideas Against Populism
Posted by Fiona Stoffer | Jul 26, 2019 | Citizen Engagement, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing | 2
Crowdsourcing Solutions for Democracy
Posted by Fiona Stoffer | Jul 9, 2019 | Citizen Engagement, Crowdsourcing | 0
The Influence of Crowd Technology on Democracy
by Clive Reffell | Jun 19, 2019
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...
Read MoreHow Horizon State Leads the Blockchain Charge
by Damon Brown | Oct 17, 2018
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...
Read MoreQ&A with Oren Alazraki, CEO of Horizon State
by Clive Reffell | Oct 9, 2018
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...
Read MoreGlobal Recognition for Horizon State from Davos Organizers
by Clive Reffell | Oct 4, 2018
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...
Read MoreHorizon State Blockchain Empowering the Vote and Our Philanthropy
by Damon Brown | Sep 19, 2018
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...
Read MoreBlockchain Democracy: Fixing a Wrecked System
by Shay Hershkovitz | Sep 12, 2018
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...
Read MoreChanging Government Through Crowdsourcing
by Damon Brown | Aug 30, 2018
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...
Read MoreMayor of London Has £1m For Community Projects Using Crowdfunding
by Clive Reffell | Jul 11, 2018
The Mayor of London recently announced his annual allocation of £1 million available to a range of grassroots community projects. Operating in conjunction with UK crowdfunding platform Spacehive, and co-ordinated through the...
Read MoreCrowdfunding in Sweden
by Clive Reffell | Nov 30, 2017
Crowdfunding in Sweden continues to grow and make headlines, from startups using donations-for-rewards crowdfunding as a sales channel for innovative products to quickly achieve high turnover, to the electric vehicle...
Read MoreEnergy Sustainability and Decentralization (Part II)
by Clive Reffell | Nov 23, 2017
In Part 1 we looked at decentralization of electricity generation, largely due to the availability of affordable equipment for domestic-scale production from renewable sources. Part 2 looks at the distribution side of the...
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