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.
The shift to the crowd economy is already here. As we count the weeks before the Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2015 (#CSWEurope15), we are thrilled to announce our very first #CrowdChat session with one of our speakers, Haydn Shaughnessy on September 15 at 8:00 PM CET....
The Syrian refugee crisis is a tragic reminder of how humanity needs to respond to a slew of new problems that we are not sure how to handle. No one has all the answers, but we must begin somewhere. Before all of the strategic and formal programs that can emerge to...
Do you have some spare time this summer? Why not invest in yourself and learn new things via the Internet? Perhaps, some basic concepts on programming, coding or learn online marketing, new technologies and languages, stocks and trading, and a myriad of subjects and...
A spirit of inquiry animates the practice of collaborative innovation.What questions, were we to pursue them together, might lead to authentic breakthroughs?Creative thinkers such as Art Van Gundy, Peter Block, the creators of the World Café, and others guide us in...
All eyes are on Greece’s financial crisis — and on Indiegogo, a crowdfunding platform. Can collective action of world citizens bail a country out of debt? Thom Feeney, a marketing manager based in UK, got the ball rolling on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, believing...
We are exposed to a myriad of news and updates worldwide. As the crowd becomes more involved in providing information, adopting that 'upload mindset' coined by Will Merritt of Zooppa, access to all kinds of data is a few taps and clicks away. Other readers even use...
This is a guest post by Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero, Principal Administrator at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. Two strong trends are emerging in the western world that, at first glance, appear contradictory: on the one...
When asked where can we use crowdsourcing, the answer is simple. Anything. Gaming is becoming a popular application for crowdsourcing that is gaining traction as serious gamers want more than to just play the game. Well, you won’t just be playing the Super Mario Game...
The burgeoning e-learning industry in Asia is expected to hit $12 billion by 2018 according to New Ambient Insight Report. Labeled as the second-highest (next to North America) self-paced e-learning market, countries such as Myanmar (50.2%), Thailand (43.7%) and...
Can you imagine what two heads can achieve to solve a problem? A popular quote sums it up: “Two are better off than one because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up.” True enough, no man or woman is an island....
Simple Does It Clients and I talk about innovation management maturity all the time. How mature is their practice of collaborative innovation? What signs point to maturity? What outcomes speak to maturity? How might they perfect their practice? I craft a simple visual...
Can crowds be better than experts? Zenia Tata, Executive Director, Global Expansion, XPRIZE said, “Sometimes, yes. It's not as much about finding FEW expert answers but finding MANY crazy ideas and vetting them into expert solutions.” She discussed the problem-solving...
eYeka will be at Crowdsourcing Week Global (April 20-24) and Crowdsourcing Week Geneva (May 26) to present the findings of our Crowdsourcing Trend Report, released last week. eYeka's "The State of Crowdsourcing in 2015" trend report takes a step back to look at the...
Only four weeks to go before Crowdsourcing Week's 3rd Global Annual Conference. And in a preview to the exciting & intensive content at CSW Global 2015, we are chatting with Zenia Tata of XPRIZE, one of speakers in our stellar lineup on April 22. #Crowdchat is a...
Meet the most influential thinkers, doers and practitioners in the crowd economy, all in one exhaustive list. As promised last week, we are unveiling the exhaustive list of crowd economy influencers. We're calling it the #Crowd411, the essential directory of people...
The Crowd Economy is exploding and the front runners in crowd innovation are truly changing the dynamic of this decade. Who are these influencers that have adopted crowd-driven approaches to solve challenges in business, government and social enterprise? How can we...
Real leaders are readers. Do you agree? To jumpstart the second-half of February, we’ve scouted these 12 crowdsourcing books every innovator should read to keep abreast on the industry, including crowdfunding, open-innovation, crowd economy, collaborative...
Clash of Civilizations. It has been in headlines for ages. Now we can observe a new global clash. A conservative vs. inventive mindset. Innovation vs. the comfortable old "business as usual." The "usual” has been disrupted and won’t stay the same. Not in our...
It’s a good thing I’m not easily discouraged. In 2009, when I was sowing the seeds for what would become Crowdsourcing Week, a vehicle to enable dialogue and knowledge transfer on the principles of crowdsourcing, I read a piece titled, The Myth of Crowdsourcing, by...
An edited version of this post first appeared on Virgin. Crowdsourcing in 2014 has experienced tremendous transformations and played a major role in the convergence of technology, business, and disruptive ideas to make the world a global stage of infinite...
The relation between citizens and representative democracy is in a deep crisis, as indicated by a fall in the number of voters l in many countries all around the world. It's a global phenomenon caused by the wide gap, that is growing every day between...
Who says 3-D printing is for furniture or accessory pieces only? Not anymore. Local Motors has gone the extra mile with its first ever 3-D printed car unveiled at Detroit Auto Show on Monday, according to The Washington Post. The Strati roadster design was a...
Photo Credit: Sebastiaan ter BurgFemale entrepreneurship is much more than a social issue. Now it is an economic one with a rising generation of 'mumpreneurs' going out and challenging the existing gender imbalance of business.Building confidence“One of the main...
“Facebook has recognized Kosovo.” You must have seen these viral headlines about a year ago. Now we get behind the scenes at CSW Europe in Copenhagen and get to know who has driven this change. The project of Digital Kosovo has existed for a little over one year. In...