Crowd Tasks Archives - Crowdsourcing Week

A Thousand Eyes Are Better Than Two

by Shay Hershkovitz | Jul 3, 2018 |

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 |

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...

Humans, Robots and the Future of Work

by Epi Ludvik Nekaj | Nov 21, 2017 |

This is a series of blog posts in relation to The Hyperloop of Innovation and Future of Work. First we worked in fields, then factories, and now everywhere and anytime through devices connected to the internet. But what’s next...

Sweden is a Crowdsourcing Leader

by Clive Reffell | Oct 26, 2017 |

Sweden is recognised as being at the forefront of using crowdsourcing to develop both business and community social opportunities. Perhaps it’s an almost inevitable extension of central government policy to eradicate gender...

Benefits of effective crowdsourcing shown by 10 top US projects

by Clive Reffell | Jun 1, 2017 |

Crowdsourcing can reduce costs, speed up project timelines, tap in to crowd intelligence and creativity, and engage citizens at all levels of corporate and government processes. It’s not just for new startups, iconic...

What To Expect From Crowdsourcing in 2017

by Melissa Thompson | Feb 15, 2017 |

In recent weeks, as Trump has assumed his position as the President of the United States, the differences between himself and the Obama administration have become clearer. Despite all odds, however, there is one area common to...

Introducing the VOLCROWE Project [Download the Infographic]

by Crowdsourcing Week | Oct 20, 2015 |

A guest post by Volcrowe submitted by Dr. Eun Young Oh, a senior research associate at the University of Portsmouth Business School. VOLCROWE (Volunteer and Crowdsourcing Economics) is a research collaboration between the...

YOU Have Helped Digitize Millions of Books – Through Online Collaboration!

by Priti Ambani | Sep 30, 2013 |

The brains behind CAPTCHA, Luis von Ahm and his team while proud of the fact that millions were using their invention everyday also saw hundreds of thousands of hours of lost productivity as people typed in their CAPTCHA. The question- ‘how can we better use these 10 secs of human potential that we have at our disposal’ led them to something better than spam protection. Spam protection with a way to digitize books – Re-CAPTCHA. How brilliant!

Will you Crowdsource your Haircut?

by Priti Ambani | Jul 17, 2013 |

Colleen Flanigan, the coral reef sculptor and TED Senior Fellow, didn’t have time to get a haircut before TEDGlobal back in June. So in the spirit of the conference, themed ‘Radical Openness,’ she crowdsourced one instead, letting dozens of conference-goers each take one snip of her hair.

Crowdsource Your Customer Acquisition and Business Development

by Priti Ambani | Jan 10, 2013 |

Using a crowdsourcing site for referrals can be a big time-saver as well. Anyone who owns or runs a business is always trying to maximize his limited time, and online crowdsourcing is very efficient. There is no travel involved, and conversations are limited to the business at hand. Communicating with someone half a world away doesn’t require that both people be online at the same time, thus saving even more valuable time. BusinessLeads is designed exactly for this purpose.