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.
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.
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.
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 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 in order to satisfy executives further up in the system.
New Tools Aid Boston Bombings Investigation
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 witnesses – with mobile devices.
R&D & Innovation Has Never Been Closer to Customers: Irene Ng
Irene Ng (@Ireneclng), Director of @WMGwarwick International Institute for Product and Service Innovation, answered questions about value & markets in the digital economy during the April 12 #CrowdChat hosted by CrowdsourcingWeek.com (@crowdweek)
CrowdChat with Irene Ng: New Markets in the Digital Economy
Professor of Marketing and Service Systems and the Director of the International Institute for Product and Service Innovation at WMG, University of Warwick.
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 upsides of course being that you learn pretty much constantly.
Wil Merritt, Zooppa CEO, on Crowd Creativity as a Brand Resource
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. We interviewed Wil Merritt, the CEO of Zooppa on how the company is helping brands and its advocates come together.
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 2013.
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 science as far as is possible from political, ideological and religious influence,” he said. And I’m wondering whether he is right? Should we really be keeping these areas separate?
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Geosocial Universe 3.0: The Integrated Giants [Graphic]
For this graphic, we used a survey from Pingdom, an uptime monitoring service, to visualize how many of the top 10,000 websites are integrated with major social platforms.
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 Entertainment.
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.
#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, finance, and teach new startups.
Can Quality Come from the Crowd?
A few weeks ago, I came across a new Brazilian startup, Widbook – a.k.a. the YouTube of Books (according to Mashable). A sort of literary social network with a crowd-based twist, Widbook is a space where aspiring writers can put their work on display and collaborate on ongoing projects as well. A bit of a book nerd myself, I definitely found the idea intriguing. But then I got to thinking: What about quality?
The Ins of the Outs of Crowdsourcing
To garner any lasting and impactful benefits from Crowdsourcing, going ‘out there’ needs internal trust. Without that trust much energy will be expended by a few people, only to see potentially business changing ideas fall on to infertile soil. There are some key things that your organization must understand when it moves toward tapping the crowd.
A Quality Framework for Crowds
The number 1 issue facing the entire wave of crowdsourcing companies today is quality. Everyone can setup a service that is cheaper and has a faster turnaround time, but quality is holding the industry back.
The Geosocial Universe 3.0 [INFOGRAPHIC]
In a time not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a little phenomenon was born that united the people of cyberspace through geographic services and social networking. In August 2010, JESS3 took one giant step for geosocial networking with the introduction of The...
Jokers In The Pack
Even as crowd sourcing platforms mushroom around us, some would succeed and most will fail. The jokers in the pack have an innate understanding of the crowd they’re going after. Kickstarter.com, Kiva.org are the ones who come to mind immediately.