Category: Crowd Tasks

Crowdsourcing IT Security During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted by Anas Baig | Apr 29, 2020 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing | 0

What is Crowdsourcing, and How Can it Add Value to Your Enterprise?

by Eugene Ivanov | Apr 9, 2020 | Collective Intelligence, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing

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...

Crowdsourcing Citizen Scientists to Feed Scientific Developments

by Clive Reffell | Feb 25, 2020 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration

AI technology is increasingly used to open up new horizons for scientists and researchers. It enables analysis of masses of data much faster than humans can manage, identifies deep trends and patterns that could be indiscernible...

BOLD // Crowd 2.0 Powered by AI and Machine Learning

by Epi Ludvik | Feb 11, 2020 | Citizen Engagement, Collective Intelligence, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing

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...

Open Innovation Helps Businesses Power Breakthroughs and Identify Best Talent

by Clive Reffell | Aug 29, 2019 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

Agorize began as a French-based open innovation challenge platform that connects businesses and innovators from all over the world. Since it started in 2010 it has hosted over 200 challenges, connected with five million...

Crowdsourcing Ideas Against Populism

by Fiona Stoffer | Jul 26, 2019 | Citizen Engagement, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing

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.

Building Smart Cities Step By Step

by Clive Reffell | Jun 21, 2019 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing

55% of the world’s 7.7 billion people already live in urban environments, and this figure is rising fast. With the simple act of a footstep, Pavegen’s smart flooring system enables people to physically participate in the...

Searching for the Boldest Citizen Scientist

by Shay Hershkovitz | Jan 22, 2019 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

For centuries, science has been the pursuit of amateur, self-funded and self-motivated scientists: Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin and Thomas Edison – to name just a few. However, in the first half of the...

How Crowdsourcing is Making Science Smarter

by Damon Brown | Jul 17, 2018 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing

Major scientific discovery has traditionally been the playground of one group: the elite. It’s no coincidence that Darwin, Copernicus, and others legends came from well-off backgrounds as scientific breakthroughs often require...

A Thousand Eyes Are Better Than Two

by Shay Hershkovitz | Jul 3, 2018 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration

How do you scan an area of 305,000 sq km (118,000 sq mi)? This was the challenge for several countries in 2014, trying to solve the mystery of the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Tremendous effort and resources were put into...

Harnessing Collective Wisdom for Impact: the Case of Google Lunar XPRIZE

by Shay Hershkovitz | May 30, 2018 | Collective Intelligence, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing is a great way to generate novel ideas and has been adopted by corporations and governments around the world. But crowdsourcing has the potential to change the world – to solve some of humanity’s most pressing...