How Can We Leverage The Power Of The Crowd To Build Tomorrow’s Economy and Find Breakthroughs?
With each day, more technologies enable the practice of crowdsourcing to become more sophisticated and viable. From Airbnb for stays to BlaBlaCar and Careem in transportation, crowdsourcing and sharing economy companies have shifted behaviors in the marketplace for good. We are now in a prime position to lead the change in applying crowd principles to breakthrough opportunities to expand its reach and foster sustainable growth.
The early actions and declarations of President Trump have swung even greater world interest to Washington D.C., where his frequent direct messaging to over 27 million Twitter followers has clearly disrupted the traditional methods of news gathering and dissemination...
What an amazing experience! Let's remind ourselves why we chose Sweden. In the weeks prior to CSW Summit Arctic Circle on March 15-19 we looked at some of the business sectors where Swedish ingenuity and entrepreneurship has created world-leading disruptor brands and...
A previous article shone a spotlight on several crowdsourcing success stories from Sweden, and the country that birthed technologies from Skype to Spotify is striving to foster other technologies that could influence the world in coming decades. Ahead of our CSW...
In this age of mass communication and globalisation, levels of commerce, foreign investment and tourism can depend largely on how a country is perceived abroad. Visit Sweden, the country’s official travel and tourist information web site, therefore supports many...
After two decades of economic transformation, Sweden is top of Forbes’s 2016 list of countries that are the most inviting for capital investment.* Undoubtedly this is great news for Sweden, a country that is definitely punching above its economic weight. Though...
Why CSW chose Swedish Lapland for its Summit in March Sweden is recognised as a nation at the forefront of the sharing economy, stemming from an inherently high level of social consciousness and supportive government policies that even allow tax breaks on repairs to...
Can crowdsourcing and collaboration offer new solutions where older, traditional ways of doing business have failed to deliver? The answer is a resounding ‘yes’. As digital technology has grown, so too has the number of tools that can be used for collaboration and...
Crowdsourcing Week returns to the remoteness of Swedish Lapland inside the Arctic Circle in March 2017 for what promises to be an exciting blend of presentations, panel discussions and audience participation. A three day CSW Summit Arctic Circle will take place March...
Crowdsourcing Week returns to the remoteness of Swedish Lapland inside the Arctic Circle in March 2017 for what promises to be an exciting blend of presentations, panel discussions and audience participation with team workshops and voting for best ideas from a range...
Spread throughout the four full days of speaker sessions and panel discussions at the Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2016 conference in Brussels November 21-25 there were a number of sessions dedicated to crowdfunding. Here is a summary of them. Fredrik Barkenhammar of...
The final day of the week-long CSW Europe 2016 conference in Brussels finished with a final innovation as two outstanding young delegates hosted the event on-stage. Earlier in 2016 Crowdsourcing Week launched its Young Achiever Programme to find 27 outstanding...
The crowd economy is creating massive shifts in the future of work, education and employment. How can and should today’s educational structure change to better prepare next generations for a different work environment? In today’s session we heard from some of the top...