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Crowds and Prize Challenges Driving Sustainability

Discover how crowdsourcing and prize challenges fuel innovation for driving sustainability, solving pressing environmental issues.

Managing Pandemic-Proof Payables for Digital Marketplaces

COVID-19 is going to be a generation’s shared memory, with its disruptive and generally negative effects. The lockdowns are increasing the size of the gig-economy workforce as some furloughed workers transition to a temporary income from any of the most in-demand jobs...

From Lecture Theatres to Living Rooms: the New Normal of Education

While the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked an immediate need for online education, it has also triggered the unbundling of the entire education industry. This, coupled with learner demands for flexible formats, will mean that the digital transformation that we’ve all...

CSW’s Virtual Crowd Summit Summary, 7 May 2020

Attendees at our first Virtual Crowd Summit experienced an international panel of speakers discussing and sharing how crowdsourcing-led techniques and models can help organisations. Help them to not only face up to the economic and operational implications of the...

Why Rewards Crowdfunding Matters

Rewards crowdfunding matters because of the part it is playing in moving us from where we are today, to where we need to go. The world is facing unprecedented challenges - environmental, economic, and social. One only needs to turn on the news to see the vast array of...

Crowdsourcing IT Security During The COVID-19 Pandemic

The threat of cyber-attacks has risen in the current COVID-19 pandemic, with many company employees working remotely and outside centralised company security systems. Now even small companies need access to experts in cybersecurity and penetration testing on an urgent...

What is Crowdsourcing, and How Can it Add Value to Your Enterprise?

Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds, the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business...

A Crowdsourcing Rallying Cry to Harness the Power of Crowds

History shows that crowdsourcing is not new. Today, a proliferation of open innovation platforms encourages skilled experts throughout the world to compete for cash and status by offering solutions to an array of prize challenges, whether as individuals or as...

Cryptocurrency in the Time of COVID-19

The global threat of COVID-19 has crippled the travel and tourism industries, tested the world’s capacity to respond to massive and rapidly growing healthcare challenges, and forced many other industries to adapt to the times lest they sink under the weight of “the...

Same Coronavirus Threat, Different Responses Around the World

It is fascinating to see how different leaders choose to deal with a crisis like the coronavirus outbreak. Let's compare three approaches: the “Populists,” the “Believers” and the “Proactives.” The Populists Solutions put forward by populist leaders who mobilised “the...

Open Innovation Platforms Are Like An Airbnb For Brains

"An open innovation platform shares human brains and ingenuity like Airbnb shares spare accommodation." These are the words of Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of the HeroX innovation platform. There is growing recognition among organization leaders that...

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