Detroit, the iconic American city will never leave the public eye. Once representative of America's manufacturing powers, the city has fallen with the challenging economic climate, even recently filing for municipal bankruptcy. Many see this city as a land of missed...
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.
Copenhagen: Innovation Begins at a Public Park
Have you been to public places that discourages a good conversation, has uncomfortable seating or is just not inviting? Copenhagen thinks about public spaces in a dramatically opposite way. Imagine a space that allows to swing and relax, admire the clouds and even...
Breaking Down Farmers’ Knowledge Barriers in Developing Countries
We see advances in technology almost everyday. But the rate at which these percolate to poor farmers in developing countries is slow enough to throw them into a vicious poverty cycle. The team at Barefoot Lightning is trying to change that via their Talisman Mobile...
What is the Potential of The Crowd Economy?
What is the crowd economy? You may know it as the sharing or collaborative economy that presents an economic opportunity for ordinary citizens to monetize idle resources like an extra bedroom, tools or their car. But it also includes crowdfunding, crowdsourced...
Turn Social Media Posts Into Memorable Stories with BrickFlow
Today, we are pleased and proud to introduce one of our Startup Challenge Winners from Crowdsourcing Week 2013 Singapore - Brickflow! We all use a number of different social media platforms to share our thoughts and experiences.What if you could pull together all...
Will you Crowdsource your Haircut?
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...
Is Crowdsourcing Rocking Your World?
This is a guest post by Walter Lim, a corporate professional and senior manager with 17.5 years of experience in marketing, public relations, social business, events, strategic planning, policy, industry development, and corporate development. Walter is the owner and...
HubSpot’s Culture Code Deck
In an article written by Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot’s Co-founder and CTO, Shah seeks to make a statement on why company culture is so important. Shah went so far as to create an infographic and SlideShare deck to further hone in on his points involving workplace...
José María Figueres: We Can Count on the Intelligence of the Crowd To Solve Big Issues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNdNudlvPo8 José María Figueres is a businessman, politician and no stranger to innovation. As President of Costa Rica (1994-1998) at the age of 39, he created a comprehensive national development strategy based on the tenets of...
Shelley Kuipers: Participation is The New Brand
Chaordix is an early supporter of Crowdsourcing Week and Shelley is on our Board of Advisors. She will deliver a talk on Growing Global Brands through Crowdsourcing in Singapore. In this presentation, Shelley will reveal how brands are being transformed by tapping the...
Will Pressure from the Crowd Help Improve Your Health?
You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local defibrillators. Via TED, Lucien Engelen is a technologist...
Metrics and Open Innovation: What Should We Measure?
This is a difficult topic. There is definitely some merit in the adage of “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. However, I have seen too many examples in which smart people get side-tracked on what really matters – the output – as they try to develop metrics...
New Tools Aid Boston Bombings Investigation: Mobile Devices and the Crowd
Copley Square in Boston is now a crime scene after the tragic bombing at one of the most iconic sporting events of our time - the Boston Marathon. And hundreds and thousands of people - runners, spectators, law enforcement officials and even passerby's are all...
R&D & Innovation Has Never Been Closer to Customers: Irene Ng
Irene Ng (@Ireneclng), Director of International Institute for Product and Service Innovation (@WMGwarwick), answered questions about value & markets in the digital economy during the April 12 #CrowdChat hosted by CrowdsourcingWeek.com (@crowdweek). If you missed...
CrowdChat with Irene Ng: New Markets in the Digital Economy
How has our digital world influenced the manufacture, design, and delivery of products? What will our buying experiences be like in the future – a future when no firm is too big to fail? Join us on Friday, April 12 for a live Twitter #CrowdChat - to discuss new...
Potential of Crowdsourcing in Advertising
One of the professional hazards of working in the Brand building industry is that, you’re extremely sensitive to advertising. The fact that it is all around and can range from anywhere between awesome to depraved is unsettling enough to push you off your rocker. The...
Q&A with Wil Merritt, CEO of Zooppa: Crowd Creativity is a Resource for Brands
Zooppa is the global social network for creative talent. It partners with companies to bring its community members opportunities to create great ads for leading brands. Companies develop a creative brief describing their brand's attributes, the target audience, and...
When Crowdsourcing Doesn’t Work
Crowdsourcing is a great tool for solving problems, but just like any other tool--it doesn't solve everything. As the saying goes, when all you've got is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail. Crowdsourcing will never be the one-all solve-all tool for problem...
EdTech in Latin America: Three Trends to Watch
When it comes to technology’s education-related potential, it is largely the populations of developing economies who stand to benefit the most. This is certainly the case of Latin America, where the edtech market had a stellar 2012 and is poised to have an even better...
Should We Really Keep Politicians Away From Scientists?
Sir Paul Nurse has 'weight' when it comes to science. His position is the head of The Royal Society in the United Kingdom and in an address in Melbourne he suggested that we need to keep politicians away from scientists: "It also emphasizes the need to keep the...
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Geosocial Universe 3.0: The Integrated Giants [Graphic]
Alongside our third version of the Geosocial Universe, JESS3 created three additional snackables — think of them as moons in the orbit of the full graphic. Here’s the first one: The Integrated Giants. For this graphic, we used a survey from Pingdom, an uptime...
Arun Mehra: This is the Era for Collaboration
Crowdsourcing Week interviewed Arun Mehra, the Chief Executive Officer with Talenthouse India, an online platform pioneering in creative collaboration. He is an entertainment industry veteran with over 18 years of experience spanning O&M, MTV, BCCL and Reliance...
David Berkowitz: Crowdsourcing Is and Isn’t for Everyone.
Crowdsourcing Week interviewed David Berkowitz, Vice President of Emerging Media with digital marketing agency 360i, where he develops social media and mobile marketing programs for Fortune 500 businesses and leading brands. David has written more than 400 columns...
#CrowdChat with Hugh Mason: Accelerating Asia’s Innovation Ecosystem
Asia is currently one of the most exciting and fast-growing hubs of innovation and entrepreneurship in the world. Within this regional ecosystem, the Singapore-based innovation academy JFDI.Asia has built an extraordinary community of practitioners who accelerate,...