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What role will platform cooperatives play in the sharing economy?
We look at a number of platform cooperatives that are starting to gain traction in the sharing economy.
Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 26
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking and must-read news – major banks working together on a digital currency, Siemens joining building technology crowdsourcing community, MindSumo helping college students through crowdsourcing and many more …...
Bitcoin has a pretty bad reputation
Bitcoin’s own website says “Bitcoin allows exciting uses that could not be covered by any previous payment system.” That’s certainly coming true, it is now often associated with cyber-criminals and drug dealers, and to be honest that association isn’t entirely...
Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 19
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read – crowdsourcing the fight against cancer, using machine learning to predict out-of-sample performance of trading algorithms; Canadian Olympians crowdfunding their way to Rio and many more...
India’s Top 10 Crowdfunding Platforms
The global crowdfunding industry generated about $34.4 billion in capital last year. No reliable numbers are available for India though it is estimated it accounts for a small fraction of this. Yet local crowdfunding sites are proliferating and drawing attention from...
Deliveroo’s attempted new pay deal a return to “bad old days”?
Deliveroo sparked a rebellion among a section of its London delivery workers after trying to impose a unilateral change to their pay structure. It was going to change from £7 per hour plus £1 per each delivery to a straight £3.75 per delivery. In essence this was a...
How co-creation is shaping the future of cities
As the famous urban activist Jane Jacobs once wrote, “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” It’s a truth that lies at the heart of a number of urban co-creation...
The Ethereum Trilogy Part II – The Two Chains
After a $50m raid on funds held in Ethereum, a hard fork created two incompatible blockchains, a windfall for Ether holders and still unresolved controversy
Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 12
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read – Democracy is getting a reboot on the blockchain; Startup using machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields; Moovit speeding up their delivery of real-time updates and many more...
Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 5
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read – AI and crowdsourcing remaking the legal profession; Kickstarter creating over 300,000 jobs; Internet’s third wave coming and many more … Artificial intelligence and...
Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 29
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup July 15 , July 22 of the breaking news and must-read – Airbnb releasing a new poll on sharing economy, Goldman Sachs offering online lending platform, Crowdcube planning a secondary market for equity crowdfunding and more … ...
How to Crowdfund Without a Lead Investor
“Lead investors” are well-versed, experienced investors who spend the time conducting due diligence on a company, and then invest a large amount in an equity crowdfunding campaign. Lead investors are a catalyst for unlocking investment from others: the funds they...
Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 22
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read – Crowdsourcing transforming the workplace; different crowdsourcing project for public service; crowdsourcing supporting machine learning and many more .. How Crowdsourcing Is Transforming...
Crowdcube raises over £5m for itself
Before today, UK equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has raised more than £173m from over 295,000 investors to complete 426 successful raises, and described itself as the world’s leading investment crowdfunding platform. Minutes ago that status was confirmed...
Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 15
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team A case study in the crowdsourcing age Learn about how scholars, companies and workers are using Mechanical...
CSW Summit Bangalore on 10 September 2016 focuses on the Crowd Economy
In partnership with Digital Empowerment Foundation, Crowdsourcing Week Summit Bangalore will bring crowdsourcing and the crowd economy to centre stage in our first event held in India. Indian and international speakers, including Osama Manzar, Founder and Director of...
Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 8
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team House leaders to vote on crowdfunding, Angel Investing Two bills are among more than 20 pieces of US...
$50m Ethereum heist had no easy answer
This was not a drill. A week before the Brexit panic, panic gripped users and developers of the Ethereum blockchain when flagship application “The Dao” came under attack. The Dao is an example of a DAO: Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, a business...
Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 1
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team How crowdsourcing will build the next $100 billion company Alphabet (formerly Google) Executive Chairman Eric...