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How LEGO Used Crowdsourcing to Achieve 21st Century Success

Crowdsourcing examples such as LEGO Ideas show corporate management can gain ideas from people who lack business experience but are keen brand supporters.

An Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to BlockChain [Infographics]

An Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to BlockChain [Infographics]

What fascinates people about services like Bitcoin is the dissolution of boundaries of nations and geographies. Online cryptocurrency allows people to get goods and services from across the world without needing to involve cumbersome legal red tape. However, the same...

How Digital Tokens and ICOs Work for Video Gamers

How Digital Tokens and ICOs Work for Video Gamers

In the 10 years since the iPhone was introduced the computer and video gaming industry has been shifting from stand-alone offline platforms (consoles and PCs) to a $multi-billion online industry with a host of new benefits and possibilities. Mass direct connectivity...

New Work Opportunities in Crowdsourcing

New Work Opportunities in Crowdsourcing

“The Future of Jobs” Report published in 2016  by the World Economic Forum said: “By one popular estimate*, 65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don’t yet exist.” (*Source: McLeod, Scott and Karl...

Artificial Intelligence Can Solve The Biggest Crowdsourcing Problem

Artificial Intelligence Can Solve The Biggest Crowdsourcing Problem

The concept of crowdsourcing isn’t all that new and was born in 2002. However, the term “crowdsourcing” itself wasn’t coined until few years later when Wired used it for the first time to describe production in a marketplace that was digitally connected. Fifteen years...

A message from Crowdsourcing Week’s CEO

A message from Crowdsourcing Week’s CEO

A few times each year I like to keep in touch with people I've met. There are no secrets in what I send out so I thought I'd share the content of my latest personal e-mail with a wider audience. Still ringing in my ears are the words of my good friend, Joe Schmidt...

CSW Summit Seattle speakers are signing up

CSW Summit Seattle speakers are signing up

Seattle is renowned as a US centre of disruptive new trends and both corporate developments and social movements. The home to global giants including Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing and Starbucks is our choice for CSW's second US Summit where our leading speakers and...

Seattle’s soccer team rose to the top through crowdsourcing

Seattle’s soccer team rose to the top through crowdsourcing

The location of our CSW Summit in October 2017, Seattle in Washington state, USA, has a reputation as a place where movements begin. The modern coffee bars, underground music, grunge – all began in Seattle. Major corporations including Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing are...

Crowdsourcing & Cybersecurity – A Supercell Against Cyber Threats

Crowdsourcing & Cybersecurity – A Supercell Against Cyber Threats

We live in a technology-driven world, where information spreads like wildfire. However, this information can sometimes be very dangerous if it gets into wrong hands, while at other times it can be fairly valuable. For instance, a cybercriminal gets their hands on a...

What does blockchain technology mean for you?

What does blockchain technology mean for you?

In the internet of things, we’re all connected, all the time, to everything. It’s where the world is moving—your home, your car, your phone, your work. It’s like you can make a virtual copy of yourself to do things that would have required your physical presence even...

Bitcoin Need Regulation to Boost Growth

Bitcoin Need Regulation to Boost Growth

Whilst Morgan Stanley is heavily interested in blockchain technology, analysts at the investment bank are worried by how Bitcoin is extremely dependent on the governments’ acceptance and regulation for further growth. This was revealed even after the cryptocurrency...

Why we picked Seattle for our next US Summit

Why we picked Seattle for our next US Summit

Here at Crowdsourcing Week we are delighted to hold our second USA Summit in Seattle, a global hub of software skills and expertise and, as some say, “the spiritual home of artificial intelligence.” It also gives us the opportunity to flag up a major crowdsourcing...

Open Innovation at GE: The Power of the Global Crowd [Q&A]

Open Innovation at GE: The Power of the Global Crowd [Q&A]

Q&A with Dyan Finkhousen, Director of Open Innovation at General Electric While the idea of open innovation is still fairly new, there are an increasing number of initiatives and companies that are getting value out of their efforts with this new collaborative...