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.

Crowds for Tribes

For nearly a year now we’ve been working on a production to promote domestic adventure tourism among Indian youth. This project has been conceptualized in collaboration with an American adventure enthusiast and filmmaker. However, the reason it hasn’t taken off...

Online Collaboration Has Helped Digitize Millions of Books

The brains behind CAPTCHA, Luis von Ahm and his team while proud of the fact that millions were using their invention everyday also saw hundreds of thousands of hours of lost productivity as people typed in their CAPTCHA. The question- ‘how can we better use these 10 secs of human potential that we have at our disposal’ led them to something better than spam protection. Spam protection with a way to digitize books – Re-CAPTCHA. How brilliant!

5 Benefits of Crowdsourcing Principles for Employee Engagement

Employee satisfaction surveys, online assessments and performance reviews could soon be a thing of the past. Rejoice! These employee engagement strategies have been uncomfortable at best and further deepened the divide between employees and upper management. How can crowdsourcing help convert employees into valuable business assets?

5 Benefits of Crowdsourcing Principles for Employee Engagement

5 Benefits of Crowdsourcing Principles for Employee Engagement

Employee satisfaction surveys, online assessments and performance reviews could soon be a thing of the past. Rejoice! These employee engagement strategies have been uncomfortable at best and further deepened the divide between employees and upper management. How can...

The Art of CrowdWriting

This is a fact: you can write a book in few hours. And how you do that? By crowdwriting.

When I launched my company NulisBuku.com, the first online self-publishing company in Indonesia, back in 2010, I thought people would write a book in ‘traditional’ way as I knew it. As a writer, it will take me at least 2 months from getting an idea, writing the outline and finish writing it into a book. Yet now, with social media sites especially twitter, we found out that writers can finish a book in a week, even in a few hours.

Public Sector Crowdsourcing in Malaysia – Citizen Engagement

Malaysia’s government has proactively embarked on numerous programs to crowd source from its people – to gather ideas, and seek solutions. Some of these initiatives are highlighted, with commentary towards finding the best recipe to productively and respectfully engage the public.

Heeeelp.Me: a Social Marketplace Redefining Community Solidarity

Heeeelp.Me: a Social Marketplace Redefining Community Solidarity

Heeeelp.me is an online platform that will allow everyday people to tell their story, explain their current situation and their need, set the amount of financial support they need and show their gratitude to supporters through unique services and rewards. Their USP is...

Singapore Day 2013 – Many Stories, One Singapore

Singapore Day 2013 – Many Stories, One Singapore

Singapore uses the opportunity not just to celebrate the nation’s history and heritage but also as a nation building exercise. Organizers have invited citizens to participate and thousands are involved in the preparations and celebrations.

How the Young and Dynamic Are Revitalizing Detroit

Challenge Detroit, an initiative of The Collaborative Group wants to lead re-innovation in Detroit by focussing on people – bringing the best and brightest minds to Detroit.

Challenge Detroit is a leadership and professional development program that has invited 30 of tomorrow’s leaders to live, work, play, and give in and around the greater Detroit area for one year.

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 talk to fellow citizens doing the same. Copenhagen has created public spaces with hammocks that invite you to use them creatively and play!

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 project that brings together multiple disciplines from agriculture, business, development and psychology to provide farmers with content and tools which enable them to help themselves.

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 services and crowd-lancing.

Turn Social Media Posts Into Memorable Stories with BrickFlow

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 those entries and create a more visual and engaging story. Now there is an app for that! Brickflow is an app for making curated social media slideshows in a matter of seconds. You can build memorable stories and collections with your content from Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and more. It’s just like playing with Legos.

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 one snip of her hair.

Is Crowdsourcing Rocking Your World?

Speaking at the inaugural Crowdsourcing Week here in Singapore, Sean Moffitt shared that crowdsourcing is growing at an exponential rate of 88% over the last 8 years. Although it only yields 7 million results on Google compared to Social Media’s 4.2 billion results, the phenomena is affecting every aspect of society.

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 happiness, collaboration, and work-life balance.

José María Figueres: Crowd Intelligence Can Solve Big Issues

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 sustainability: sound economics, investment in human development, and a strong alliance with nature. Now, as President of the Carbon War Room, he is working closely with futuristic businessmen like Richard Branson to find solutions to climate change that are profitable to the environment and business.
Watch this video where he talks about the potential of the crowd to solve problems for humanity.

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 be delivering a talk on Growing Global Brands through Crowdsourcing in Singapore. In this presentation, Shelley will reveal how brands are being transformed by tapping the insights of their crowds. Specific case examples will demonstrate how global brands are successfully incorporating digital crowdsourcing technologies and techniques into their enterprises. We invited Shelley to share her thoughts on the crowdsourcing markets and why brands are paying attention to crowds.