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Crowdsourcing
Discover the impactful ways crowdsourcing – the practice of engaging a ‘crowd’ or group for a common goal, often for innovation, problem solving, or efficiency – is being applied on many different levels and across various industries.
Powering Social Issue Breakthroughs Through Open Innovation Design
At first glance the open innovation sector can appear a crowded and perhaps confusing space. A closer look reveals many platforms have focused down on to one area of specialist business interest. OpenIDEO is one such platform and provides an interface for social...
Entrepreneurship Through Open Innovation Is A Journey, Not A Status
Aurelie Wen is Managing Partner at Agorize for North America, based in Montreal, Canada. Agorize is a 100-strong open innovation tech company that brings together companies and an astonishing five million innovators from 185 countries. It is “the missing link between...
Open Letter – Humans Are Born Innovators
A world without the Internet is unimaginable. Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee. Currently connecting around 4.3 billion people worldwide, which represents 57% of the total world population, the Internet is a core pillar of the modern information society. The highest usage...
From the Crowd – To the Crowd
Problem: Convey Business Principles So They Will Be Used – Solution: Audio Theater What if someone shows you a video of a person walking into an office and sitting down in a chair? You see it all. There’s nothing left for the imagination. All your thinking has...
Open Innovation Helps Businesses Power Breakthroughs and Identify Best Talent
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 innovators from 185 countries, and earlier this...
Crowdsourcing Week Conference Helps Homeless in the Host City
Crowdsourcing Week and the crowdsourcing design platform 99designs launched an online t-shirt design contest to help the homeless in San Francisco
Resolving Open Innovation Challenges in Mechatronics
In our July 2019 article that featured Surcle, the open innovation challenge platform in the electronics hardware sector, we mentioned briefly a challenge that was live at the time. Zollner Elektronik AG had launched The Protocol Converter Challenge in an effort to...
What Can Crowds do Against Manipulation of and by Governments?
This is the third in a series of articles covering parts of the book I am writing about possible solutions to modern democracy’s challenges. Join the discussion so we can use the power of crowdsourcing to build on ideas and make them better. Government touches...
Tipalti Launch NetNow Service to Incentivise Invoice Early Payment – What Does This Mean for Marketplace Platforms?
The banking and financial services sector is becoming more strategically focused and technologically advanced. It has to respond to growing consumer expectations while trying to defend market share against an increasing array of competitors who are each trying to eat...
Crowdsourcing T-Shirt Design Contest to support efforts to help the homeless in SF
Crowdsourcing Week and 99designs has launched an online t-shirt design contest designed to engage the creativity of the crowd and encourage participation in helping the homeless in San Francisco. For those interested in entering, you will need to create t-shirt...
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...
The Next Step in Business Audio? Ask the Crowd!
Story as Communication, From Caveman to Walkman When humans listen to a story something amazing happens. Each individual in a crowd reaches into their own personal memories to create and complete the scenes in which the action takes place. In other words, they source...
Count on Mathesia to Improve Innovation
Mathesia is a crowdsourcing-based innovation platform headquartered in Italy, though available globally, that brings together a highly specialized crowd of about 3,000 vetted mathematicians and data scientists from around the world. Since launching in 2014, Mathesia’s...
Harnessing AI to Crowdsource the Diagnosis of Incurable Diseases
We are now quite used to seeing the disruption that’s taking place in many marketplaces due to the combination of new technology and mass connectivity in the hands of visionary startups, unencumbered by the ‘rules’ of established business models. Though how about when...
What Does Spoof Storming of a US Air Force Base Tell Us About Public Trust?
The originally anonymous creator of a Facebook spoof has gone public to explain he meant the storming of Area 51 on September 20 – “to see them aliens” – as a joke. What got him to break cover was 1.9 million people (so far) clicking to say they’re going, with a...
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.
Helping Out Your Fellow Humans
PARTICIPATION = SATISFACTION In 1996 Jerry Maguire, an aspiring sports agent, repeated a four word request to his first and only client: “ Help me help you! ” And you know where that got him. The feedback gave him the direction he needed to become the one...
Fielding Open Innovation Challenges in Agri-tech
As the population grows at an ever faster and faster rate, transforming how the world feeds itself is going to be a necessity. Even though up to a third of the food currently produced goes to waste, incremental improvements to current practices aren’t going to be...
Crowdsourcing Engineering Solutions Through Challenges
Surcle.io is a global crowd-engineering platform enabling corporations, SMEs, and start-ups to scale resources and tackle engineering and hardware challenges within their organizations and product life cycle. It was launched by the online electrical hardware...
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...