For many of us it’s the time of year when thoughts turn to gift-giving. Gifting a book to someone shows you have thought about their particular interests and searched for something that suits them as an individual. And a message in the book itself customises your gift...
Crowdsourcing Week partnered with Tam Development to hold the first crowdsourcing event staged in Saudi Arabia. Why it is important The sharing economy is projected to be a $335bn market by 2025. The interactive event introduced the invited audience to several...
When considering crowdsourcing across an entire continent, this can be only a cross-section of what has caught our attention. The selected examples have been chosen to show the flexibility and almost ubiquitous nature of crowdsourcing as a powerful tool for aims...
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....
When I set up my marketing business I sketched out a rough idea for a company logo and wondered what to do next. I’d heard of an online design service where I could search for someone to complete the task for me at a starting price of $5. It seemed silly not to give...
Early this year a submission from Tam Development made it to the shortlist of nominees in the BOLD Awards 2019. In partnership with 20 government and private entities in Saudi Arabia and the wider Arab region, and under the leadership of their CEO and co-founder...
Right now, around the world, the activist movement Extinction Rebellion is disrupting daily routines in major cities to highlight the dangers from man-made climate change attributed to using fossil fuels, and that time is running out to do anything meaningful about...
The focus of CSW Global 2019 was to unlock crowd participation breakthroughs and explore the use of open innovation techniques and practices becoming more mainstream – becoming the next big thing in our lives. CSW’s Founder and CEO Epi Ludvik kick-started Day One by...
At first glance the open innovation sector can appear a crowded and perhaps confusing space. A closer look reveals many platforms have focused down on to one area of specialist business interest. OpenIDEO is one such platform and provides an interface for social...
Aurelie Wen is Managing Partner at Agorize for North America, based in Montreal, Canada. Agorize is a 100-strong open innovation tech company that brings together companies and an astonishing five million innovators from 185 countries. It is “the missing link between...
A world without the Internet is unimaginable. Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee. Currently connecting around 4.3 billion people worldwide, which represents 57% of the total world population, the Internet is a core pillar of the modern information society. The highest usage...
There’s a new generation of entrepreneurs. They see themselves as change-makers, activists building businesses to save the planet. Like Greta Thunberg, they know that time is running out. Fed up with what they see as ‘corporate inertia’, they’re creating breakthrough...
Problem: Convey Business Principles So They Will Be Used - Solution: Audio Theater What if someone shows you a video of a person walking into an office and sitting down in a chair? You see it all. There’s nothing left for the imagination. All your thinking has been...
In a world where everyone talks about the next industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, what would make coding special? What would a differentiator, a breakthrough, not just another nice-to-have feature? Our answer at WonderLogix is to use of plain English versus code...
