Group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, or competition of many individuals with a common purpose
Massive numbers of employees are considering changing jobs in The Great Resignation, a post-Covid collective re-examination of priorities and work and lifestyle balance: how to work; where to work; taking more self-responsibility; exploring gig economy opportunities...
The collective intelligence of crowds is increasingly becoming a tool for solving various issues for many companies and organizations. However, these are often very specific and secondary tasks. More positively, at least three inherent factors give collective...
Technology has hurt traditional retailing, no question about it. Online shopping has transformed consumer behaviour and a growing switch away from physical trips to stores has been accelerated by pandemic lockdowns and social distancing regulations. Yet technology is...
The term ‘open source’ refers to much more than just being able to use free software. In a nutshell, Open Source Software (OSS) is crowdsourcing applied to software development. The term originated when early software developers collaborated to learn from and with...
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 knowledge is certainly growing faster and...
Undergraduate students have been trained to classify galaxies as part of a project involving a unique space telescope that specializes in collecting infrared light. The wavelengths it will record were initially emitted by stars and galaxies as ultraviolet light more...
Speech controlled apps and software, and voice recognition are swiftly moving from being a novelty to an everyday user expectation. Demand for voice-activated systems and devices is forecast to grow from what was a $9 billion market in 2017 to almost $32 billion by...
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...
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 down or from the ground up. Until Anton...
While governments and global pharmaceutical corporations search for an ultimate long-term solution, a life-saving vaccine, response to the COVID-19 has thrown up many near-term challenges. Prize challenges communicated through mass digital connectivity have given a...
Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds, the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business...
A fundamental tenet of the sharing economy is to use resources more efficiently. At a time when all of us as individuals are increasingly asked to consider our use of air travel, single-use plastic products, and turning down room temperatures, the construction...