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.
Wikistrat and Crowdsourcing Week are organizing an exclusive, virtual exercise called “The Future of the Crowdsourcing World.” It will take place from September 27 to 29, 2016 and you can be part of it. Through taking part you will understand your industry trends,...
In my role as a teacher in post-graduate Business Process Management I continually work with groups of students who are professionals from different organizations with different organizational cultures. One of the recurring major challenges within organizations that...
As the famous urban activist Jane Jacobs once wrote, "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." It's a truth that lies at the heart of a number of urban co-creation projects, which tap...
Epi Ludvik Nekaj's weekly vlog shares insights on crowd economy trends, crowdsourcing and more. In this week's video I am talking about "Be My Eyes" as an example of how we can use our time to help people through crowdsourcing resources. Be My Eyes is an iPhone app...
For many of us, it's possible when we think of 'Crowdsourcing' what comes to mind is the Kickstarter of an exciting cause or product that we recently contributed financially to (often to support a friend whose involved in it) after seeing it promoted on social media....
Ahead of CSW Global 2016, April 11-15, Roland Harwood, Co-Founder and Managing Director of 100%Open, shares practical and pragmatic ways to make that all important breakthrough in finding your open innovation ecosystem. Join Roland at Crowdsourcing Week Global on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...