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Under Three Weeks to our Boldest Global Conference

Under Three Weeks to our Boldest Global Conference

We are in to the final three week countdown before our fifth CSW Global conference in Washington D.C running 24-28 October. And we are very excited, and honored, by the number of global thought-leaders and top practitioners from the international crowdsourcing sector...

4 Things You Should Know About CSW Global 2018

4 Things You Should Know About CSW Global 2018

CSW Global 2018 is our international crowdsourcing and collaborative economy conference running October 24-28 in Washington D.C. With under six weeks to go until it starts there are four things you should definitely know about our five-day event. 1. Theme and Content...

A Q&A with our own Young Achiever Alex Plamada

A Q&A with our own Young Achiever Alex Plamada

Our Young Achiever Program 2018 aims to uncover a next wave of 25 exceptional movers, shakers and change-makers aged under 25 who are working or studying in the crowdsourcing sector. And who are already making an impact. We will invite them to our CSW Global 2018...

Enter to WIN Over $15,000 in Prizes!

Enter to WIN Over $15,000 in Prizes!

We have amazing prizes to give away that will help your organization achieve new levels of success. They include CSW Global 2018 conference tickets, consultation time with some of our our amazing conference partners, a cryptocoin workshop and copies of latest...

Top Speakers Sign Up for CSW Global 2018 Conference

Top Innovators Sign Up for CSW Global 2018 Conference

Plans and preparations for our CSW Global 2018 crowdsourcing conference in October 2018 in Washington D.C. are well advanced. Delegates from 30+ countries have already booked to attend our fifth global conference where they will be able to explore latest crowdsourcing...

Fintech Disruptors Create New Work Opportunities

Fintech Disruptors Create New Work Opportunities

In an era of major disruption to the banking industry, the traditional model has changed. On one hand, specialist apps snipe at the edges of the one-stop-shop service that main street banks aim to provide to meet all and any of their customers’ financial requirements....

Lessons from a Vital Collaborative Lifestyle in Swedish Lapland

Lessons from a Collaborative Lifestyle in Swedish Lapland

Midway through the two-centre CSW Arctic // Europe 2018 conference, everyone including delegates, speakers, our CSW Sweden Team and our local supporters made their way from the coastal city of Luleå to Vuollerim, a rather remote inland village with a population of 800...

CSW's Conference in Swedish Lapland Starts in Luleå

CSW’s Conference in Swedish Lapland Starts in Luleå

Niklas Nordström, Mayor of Luleå, opened our five-day international crowdsourcing conference in Swedish Lapland on Tuesday March 20. The city of Luleå on the Baltic Sea coast near the Arctic Circle is the first of the conference’s two locations. Almost forty...

It’s Time for CSW’s Crowdsourcing Conference in Swedish Lapland

It’s Time for CSW’s Crowdsourcing Conference in Swedish Lapland

This week sees the gathering in remote northern Sweden of almost forty of the world’s true thought-leaders and great exponents of crowdsourcing and crowd innovation in both business and social enterprises. They will update delegates and share insights on their latest...

Employment opportunities are being fuelled by disruptor businesses

Disruptor Businesses are Fuelling Employment Opportunities

Amid alarmist media coverage on the predicted numbers of jobs that will be lost to the combined effects of automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics, we like to take a regular look at some of the newer job opportunities that hardly existed...

Crowdsourcing Will Hot Up in the Swedish Arctic!

Crowdsourcing Will Hot Up in the Swedish Arctic!

Crowdsourcing thought leaders and disruptive innovators from around the world will assemble at our March 2018 conference inside Sweden’s Arctic Circle. Their aim is to share with delegates their observations on latest developments and outcomes of their recent...

Decentralization is Crowdsourcing Week’s theme in 2018

Decentralization is Crowdsourcing Week’s theme in 2018

Decentralization is our theme for 2018. The word has rebellious and transformative connotations, stemming from the sometimes turbulent devolvement of historically central-held power over property, wealth and justice to regimes of democratic government, a right to work...

Sweden is a Global Innovation Leader – and that’s official!

Sweden is a Global Innovation Leader – and that’s official!

CSW’s next major international conference in March 2018 will be held in Sweden, which a century ago was among the poorest nations in Europe. It’s a small country, home to just 0.13% of the global population. Yet today it is a global leader among the world’s most...

Recap of excellent CSW Summit Seattle

Recap of excellent CSW Summit Seattle

The day was an exciting, high energy whirlwind of delegates hearing from top US and international thought-leaders operating in the crowdsourcing and various crowd economy sectors about their latest visions and endeavors. It included Dylan Berry , the LA-based music...

Final Countdown to CSW Summit Seattle

Final Countdown to CSW Summit Seattle

Crowdsourcing Week is delighted and excited to bring its first one-day summit to Seattle on October 5 2017. CSW Summit Seattle will focus on the second wave of the crowd economy and trending topics including collective intelligence (AI + HI), microtasking,...