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.
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...
This article from Matt Burns at Unearthed Solutions gives a fresh breakdown of the structured stages of an open innovation prize challenge. Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, Unearthed Solutions helps its clients in the mining and mineral extraction industry...
How each of us has coped with the Covid-19 pandemic has shone an unblinking spotlight on our actions. Whether as a high risk front-line worker or a person who has been self-isolating, a government or corporate decision-maker, an employer or an employee, old or young,...
Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) is looking for BOLD Interns. CSW is the leading global platform and content activation partner for the Crowd Economy. It connects innovators, entrepreneurs, start-ups and companies with the latest ideas and best practices in crowdsourcing,...
COVID-19 is going to be a generation’s shared memory, with its disruptive and generally negative effects. The lockdowns are increasing the size of the gig-economy workforce as some furloughed workers transition to a temporary income from any of the most in-demand jobs...
The threat of cyber-attacks has risen in the current COVID-19 pandemic, with many company employees working remotely and outside centralised company security systems. Now even small companies need access to experts in cybersecurity and penetration testing on an urgent...
The extreme conditions of the Corona crisis lay bare the good, the bad and the ugly. As interesting as it was to observe how countries fight the same virus in different ways, it is equally fascinating to witness a strong mobilization of crowds from within the general...
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...
History shows that crowdsourcing is not new. Today, a proliferation of open innovation platforms encourages skilled experts throughout the world to compete for cash and status by offering solutions to an array of prize challenges, whether as individuals or as...
It is fascinating to see how different leaders choose to deal with a crisis like the coronavirus outbreak. Let's compare three approaches: the “Populists,” the “Believers” and the “Proactives.” The Populists Solutions put forward by populist leaders who mobilised “the...
"An open innovation platform shares human brains and ingenuity like Airbnb shares spare accommodation." These are the words of Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of the HeroX innovation platform. There is growing recognition among organization leaders that...