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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Local communities in London are increasingly taking matters into their own hands, and using crowdfunding to bring much-needed projects to life. Through crowdfunding they can put pressure on local authorities, it gives them a voice and leverage. The Mayor of London...
How do you scan an area of 305,000 sq km (118,000 sq mi)? This was the challenge for several countries in 2014, trying to solve the mystery of the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Tremendous effort and resources were put into finding the airplane’s remains,...
The abundant and ceaseless supply of scientific information causes overload. Scientists, no matter how intelligent and hardworking they are, and with the best computers at their disposal, are pushed past the point where they can effectively assess all the available...
Healthcare spending is increasing significantly around the world, due to aging and increasing populations, developing markets, advances in medical treatments, an increase in chronic diseases, rising obesity levels and climbing labor costs. New technologies promise...
Crowdsourcing is a great way to generate novel ideas and has been adopted by corporations and governments around the world. But crowdsourcing has the potential to change the world – to solve some of humanity’s most pressing challenges by tapping into ideas generated...
The smartest businesses know that they don’t have the power anymore. The people do. The conversation has shifted from focused, monolithic companies telling the consumer what they need to widespread, decentralized networks built by consumers themselves. Today’s top...
Depending on who you ask, blockchain may be humanity’s greatest Ponzi scheme or the solution to everything from cancer to credit card transaction fees. The reality most certainly lies somewhere in between. When we theorize about the future of disruptive tech, the...
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....
You can’t look in the news today without some Bitcoin enthusiast or some dumbfounded reporter trying to make sense of cryptocurrencies. It’s seemingly replaced Game of Thrones as the subject of every coffee shop conversation, yet very few actually understand the...