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...
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.
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,...
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...
The Ins of the Outs of Crowdsourcing
To garner any lasting 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...
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. In some recent discussions, we came up with a simple...
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
In Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight, the villainous Joker uses crowds to facilitate anarchy. He crowd sources his rebellion via a twisted yet innate understanding of the collective. That it fails is a function of how the culture of popular commerce feels guilty about...
Leadership Skills in Open Innovation: More Collaboration and Different Control
I think it happens often enough that when an organization opens its doors to the outside, even if it is just to watch the competition, a climate of insecurity or fear emerges within the leadership and management. Organizations have lived for many years within closed...