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.

Mobile Crowdsourcing Platforms: Transforming Work and Research

Mobile Crowdsourcing Platforms: Transforming Work and Research

Vlada Pechenaya, Growth Marketing Specialist at on-demand mobile workforce platform Twentify, talks about increasing mobile adoption around the world making the smartphone a natural choice for the development of crowdsourcing capabilities in the gig economy Today, any...

Ask Epi: Patrum, a Vatican Crowdsourcing Platform for Art Lovers

Ask Epi: Patrum, a Vatican Crowdsourcing Platform for Art Lovers

Ahead of our CSW Global conference, talking place in London, April 11-15, in my fourth video I am talking about Patrum, a platform which harnesses crowdsourcing and collaboration among art lovers for the restoration of arts works within Vatican churches. Joining us as...

Are You Ready for the Second Wave of the Crowd Economy?

Are You Ready for the Second Wave of the Crowd Economy?

In my last blog post, I talked about how disruptors are getting disrupted and elimination of the business ‘middle man.’ Today I want to look back at the first wave of the Crowd Economy and the impact it has made since its birth at the height of the last recession. But...

Ask Epi: The Future of Crowd Economy Now – Economy of Hours

Ask Epi: The Future of Crowd Economy Now – Economy of Hours

In my third video, I am discussing a platform called Economy of Hours, which offers freelancers and sole traders the opportunity to buy and sell their time and skills. Soon the future of work may be defined for millions of people with this kind of trend, making it...

Citizen Engagement Earns Greater Urban Mobility in Copenhagen

Citizen Engagement Earns Greater Urban Mobility in Copenhagen

In Denmark’s capital, cycling and citizen engagement are bywords woven into the city’s culture — and this week the two have been rewarded with Copenhagen City Council’s announcement that it’s investing big in new intelligent traffic signal technology. With a budget of...

Ask Epi: Is the Shipping Industry Being Disrupted?

Ask Epi: Is the Shipping Industry Being Disrupted?

In my second video, I discuss how the shipping industry is being disrupted and its connection with sharing economy. Using DHL as a best example, the shipping company is known as one of the pioneers of its industry and the interesting part is how they established...

Will Crowdfunding Make This Candidate the Philippine President?

Will Crowdfunding Make This Candidate the Philippine President?

We’ve seen the mantra “by the people, for the people” many times and now a Philippine presidential aspirant initiated a unique take on crowdfunding to support his campaign. His initiative is also embedded with a mechanism to protect his votes in the upcoming 2016...

#1 Secret Why Google is the Most Valuable Company on Earth

#1 Secret Why Google is the Most Valuable Company on Earth

Do you remember when Google acquired YouTube for $1.6 billion? I always ask this question when speaking at conferences and the reason behind this huge acquisition I believe, is because the company had inherently understood the concept of crowd-powered media. Look at...

The Crucial Thing To Realize About Crowdsourcing

The Crucial Thing To Realize About Crowdsourcing

No doubt you’ve heard about crowdsourcing. What you might not realize is the power of crowdsourcing that can accelerate innumerable processes and innovations more efficiently—especially in the next two years, when another billion brains will join networked...

10 Indispensable Open Innovation Platforms for Global Corporations

10 Indispensable Open Innovation Platforms for Global Corporations

The Internet has democratized the way we communicate and get new ideas. Read on for 10 indispensable open innovation platforms to help your organization effectively innovate with the crowd. Or click here for a January 2021 update .  Organizations, including Fortune...

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How Governments Apply Crowdsourcing To Spark Citizen Empowerment

Crowdsourcing. We talk about it. We educate people how to use it. But it is also an overused and underappreciated word, according to Forbes. Its influence is now spawning to government affairs thanks to the Internet.  In 2013, President Obama called out to the federal...

When Crowds Respond, a Remarkable Work of Art is Created

When Crowds Respond, a Remarkable Work of Art is Created

All things are possible if you hustle with the crowd like how artist Ai Weiwei did. This prominent Chinese contemporary artist and political activist will do anything to complete his work of art in Australia after Danish toy company, Lego refused to sell him a bulk...

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An Idea Is Not an Action Item

Clients of mine who pursue the practice of collaborative innovation express the concern that they may become the victim of their own success. What if they develop their practice? What if they expand their program? What if, as a result of achieving practice and program...

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Reinventing your Business Model with Platform Thinking

The digital platform is not just a medium to interact but is one of the cornerstones of the crowd economy, that is poorly understood at best. This was a big takeaway from my interview with a top global CXO advisor on the platform business model, Sangeet Paul Choudary,...

Introducing the VOLCROWE Project	[Download the Infographic]

Introducing the VOLCROWE Project [Download the Infographic]

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 Universities of Portsmouth, Oxford,...

Giving Communities Wings with Body and Soul

Giving Communities Wings with Body and Soul

[INSPIRED BY RED BULL} Do you want to leverage the power of crowds? Do you want to turn a crowd into a community with purpose? Clear is that crowds become more effective at “anything” when they are enabled by systems and they are engaged by soul. Better systems allow...

Technology and Crowds, we #Crowdchat with Theo Priestley

Technology and Crowds, we #Crowdchat with Theo Priestley

Smart cities, big data, platforms, and crowds, so what’s next? As we live in the age of abundance, how can we really take advantage of these resources? How are we going to face the future with technology and the crowds as the front liners? Find out and chime in your...

Why The Crowd Is An Engine Of Growth: Understanding Disruption

What’s causing the shift to the new economy and how should organizations react to stay ahead? Haydn Shaughnessy, Co-Founder of The Disruption House and author who has been described as “one of the most refreshing thinkers of innovation,” joined as our special...