A very interesting opinion piece on the NY Times by Joshua Wolf Shenk dwells on the myth of the lone genius. History has perennially celebrated lone geniuses like Einstein, Picasso, Shakespeare, King while barely acknowledging their creative partners and collaborators...
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.
Ericsson Incorporates Crowdsourcing
Ericsson has launched a crowdsourcing component to its Networked Society City Index. Its aim is to measure the performance of cities from two perspectives: their information and communications tech maturity and their sustainable urban development; the Triple Bottom...
Life Interrupted: My CSW Global Story by Mark Philpott
Mark Philpott, Corporate leader turned social entrepreneur and homeless man by choice, gave a talk at CSWGlobal14 that was a revelation. This post first appeared on his blog where he talks about his experiences at CSW Global in Singapore. I have just spent some time...
MIT Bitcoin Club To Create An Ecosystem for Digital Currencies on Campus
Got $100 in Bitcoins? How will you use it? MIT's Bitcoin Club has a plan - to distribute the $100 in Bitcoins to every undergraduate on campus this Fall and press the "play" button. They hope to follow and study how students use the digital currency on campus, while...
#myNYPD Fail: When Crowds Hurt Your Outreach
The NYPD, on Tuesday, reached out to citizens and encouraged them to share pictures with department officers via Twitter using the hashtag #myNYPD. Though there were many who shared positive pictures of police officers who put their life on the line for community...
Ollie Halimatussadiah: Crowdsourcing Has Been Integral to Asian Culture
What are some of the crowd economy opportunities in Indonesia? Indonesia has been engaging in crowdsourcing for some time. What are the challenges and opportunities of embracing digital collaboration in this region? Techpreneur Ollie Halimatussadiah discusses in the...
Another Way of Rewarding the Crowd: Gamification
Relationship between crowdsourcing and gamification One of the key elements in a crowdsourcing initiative of any kind is the motivation of the crowd. It's true that the crowdsourcing initiative will need a large enough crowd, that a clearly defined task must be...
Arun Mehra: Brands Have Faith in their Crowd to Deliver Authentic Brand Identities
Registered attendees for Crowdsourcing Week Global ’14 already represent over 20 countries across 5 continents so far. To give you a little taste of what to expect at the conference, we are bringing a new ‘Speaker Spotlight’ series that showcases speakers’ work and...
Malaysian Plane MH370 Crowdsourcing Search Signals Rise of the Digital Humanitarian
The international crowdsourcing search to find Malaysian Flight 370 has brought into focus, the role of technology, hyperconnectivity and social media in crisis and humanitarian response. Since DigitalGlobe, opened their crowdsourcing platform, Tomnod to scour...
Join the International Crowdsourced Search Effort
Can a crowdsourced effort find Malaysian Airlines plane MH370? Can you help? Malaysian Airlines plane MH370 is missing, vanished into thin air with 239 passengers on board. Combined search and rescue efforts of teams from a number of countries China, Malaysia,...
Nanjira Sambuli: Crowdsourcing Can Help Us Relearn Africa
The Crowdsourcing Approach to Data Collection [#Crowdchat Recap] Nanjira Sambuli of iHub discusses crowdsourcing for citizen awareness campaigns and her recently developed framework for the viability of election-based crowdsourcing in the March 5, 2014 Twitter...
Maria Ressa: We Are Using Crowdsourcing for Greater Transparency in Democracy
Registered attendees for Crowdsourcing Week Global '14 already represent over 17 countries across 5 continents so far. To give you a little taste of what to expect at the conference, we are bringing a new 'Speaker Spotlight' series that showcases speakers' work and...