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Crowdsourced Urban Planning: Designing Cities with Community Input

Crowdsourced urban planning and design provides community input through open innovation challenges and prizes, crowdsourced data, and civic crowdfunding.

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...

How Crowdsourcing is Changing Business

How Crowdsourcing is Changing Business

The power of crowds, who can link together and organize effectively through smart mobile technology, is disrupting traditional power bases at political, corporate, media and financial levels. The rise of populist political leaders who communicate with their...

What’s Next for Gig-Economy Payments?

What’s Next for Gig-Economy Payments?

Sometimes I work with freelancers. No, that's not true. I turn to freelancers almost every day: I ride Lyft and order food from Uber-Eats. When I go on a vacation I use Airbnb; when I shop I visit Etsy.com. Sometimes I ask for creative and marketing assistance on...

Q&A with Rob Israch, CMO, Tipalti

Q&A with Rob Israch, CMO, Tipalti

California-based Tipalti, founded in 2010 by serial entrepreneur Chen Amit and underground VC Oren Zeev, was created to address the difficulties associated with making mass global payments. It does this through a comprehensive cloud-based solution that automates all...

A Complete Guide to Building Smart Mobile Apps on Blockchain

A Complete Guide to Building Smart Mobile Apps on Blockchain

Blockchain is probably the most remarkable innovation of the modern digital world. It remains one of the most promising technologies with the potential to transform and improve the global economy. Many businesses are keen to adopt Blockchain technology to increase the...

Crowdsourcing Fueling Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing Fueling Open Innovation

There is a natural tension between intellectual property and intellectual growth. Companies value their ideas and processes, as it differentiates them from other businesses, but they have to let go of some of their secrecy and power to truly bloom. The pendulum has...

Q&A with Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of HeroX

Q&A with Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of HeroX

Christian Cotichini has over 20 years of experience personally leading startup and high growth technology companies. He is also a successful angel investor as well as a serial entrepreneur. He founded Absolute Software, a leader in computer security and asset...

Crowd Gigs Are International

Crowd Gigs Are International

The U.S. Department of Labor recently put out a report on the state of freelancers and gig workers. As one of the largest studies in the space, it showed that the percentage of short-term workers was actually down slightly from 2005 when the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

The Best Motivation Always Comes From Within

The Best Motivation Always Comes From Within

Many giant companies have something in common: they are constantly engaged in crowdsourcing activities with their customers. Whether for ideation, research and development, testing or marketing, obtaining ideas or services from a large group of people can solve...

Top Innovators 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...

How Crowdsourcing is Making Science Smarter

How Crowdsourcing is Making Science Smarter

Major scientific discovery has traditionally been the playground of one group: the elite. It’s no coincidence that Darwin, Copernicus, and others legends came from well-off backgrounds as scientific breakthroughs often require equipment, access, time and privilege not...

Blockchain, Digital Assets, and the Changing World of Finance

Blockchain, Digital Assets, and the Changing World of Finance

Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies provide a revolutionary way of creating, maintaining, and securing decentralized networks. The emergence of these networks has enabled a whole range of decentralized applications; applications that threaten to...