Social Business Archives - Crowdsourcing Week

Food Sharing App Tackles $1 Trillion Annual Wastage

by Clive Reffell | Dec 4, 2018 |

A third of all the food produced in the world is thrown away. It represents an annual value of $1 trillion, and in the UK half the food is wasted in the home. It’s one of our planet’s greatest problems. There are millions of...

Mayor of London Has £1m For Community Projects Using Crowdfunding

by Clive Reffell | Jul 11, 2018 |

The Mayor of London recently announced his annual allocation of £1 million available to a range of grassroots community projects. Operating in conjunction with UK crowdfunding platform Spacehive, and co-ordinated through the...

Energy Sustainability and Decentralization (Part II)

by Clive Reffell | Nov 23, 2017 |

In Part 1 we looked at decentralization of electricity generation, largely due to the availability of affordable equipment for domestic-scale production from renewable sources. Part 2 looks at the distribution side of the...

Four factors on why crowdsourcing can make you ready for future of work

by Nishith Gupta | Nov 20, 2017 |

Few skills which one can hone with the help of crowdsourcing and be ready for future of work.

Sweden is a Crowdsourcing Leader

by Clive Reffell | Oct 26, 2017 |

Sweden is recognised as being at the forefront of using crowdsourcing to develop both business and community social opportunities. Perhaps it’s an almost inevitable extension of central government policy to eradicate gender...

Why Changes of Scenery Are Important in the Gig-Economy

by Clive Reffell | Apr 25, 2017 |

Despite apparent greater control of a personal work/life balance open to remote workers and operators in the gig economy, these people often have higher levels of stress and sleep disruption. However, the flexibility offered by...

#1 Secret Why Google is the Most Valuable Company on Earth

by Epi Ludvik Nekaj | Feb 6, 2016 |

Do you remember when Google acquired YouTube for $1.6 billion? I always ask this question when speaking at conferences and the reason behind this huge acquisition I believe, is because the company had inherently understood the...

Reinvent your Business Model with Platform Thinking – An Interview With Sangeet Paul Choudary

by Maria Krisette Capati 玛丽亚 | Nov 4, 2015 |

The digital platform is not just a medium to interact but is one of the cornerstones of the crowd economy, that is poorly understood at best. This was a big takeaway from my interview with a top global CXO advisor on the...

Investing in Women is Win-Win For All

by Yuliya Hudoshnyk | Oct 16, 2014 |

Photo Credit: Sebastiaan ter BurgFemale entrepreneurship is much more than a social issue. Now it is an economic one with a rising generation of ‘mumpreneurs’ going out and challenging the existing gender imbalance...

The 5 P’s of the Crowd Economy

by Epi Ludvik Nekaj | Oct 10, 2014 |

This article by Epi Ludvik Nekaj is reposted from Virgin Entrepreneur Social connections boosted by the web and mobile networks have seeded collaboration and cooperation like never before. Ironically all this technology has, in...