Taxi drivers in the Capital region opposed Uber yesterday by staging an official protest and stalling traffic on major DC streets. They want the DC government to follow Virginia and make Uber cease and desist operations in the District. Uber's unique model uses a...
President Obama is celebrating America's makers today at the first-ever Maker Faire at the White House. The rise of the maker movement powered by the Internet and technologies like 3D printing, easy to use design software is reviving a whole new generation of doers...
Crowd Expedition's Martijn Arets talks to Epi Ludvik Nekaj, Founder & CEO of Crowdsourcing Week about the CSW Summit in Brussels and the collaborative movement in Europe and beyond. As we travel around the world, Crowdsourcing Week is adding to the conversation...
Day 2, June 6, of the CSW Summit – Brussels focused on a series of four roundtable discussions aimed to provide in-depth insights into the collaborative economy. Implementing crowd innovation at an organizational level could seem overwhelming to many decision...
On Thursday June 5th, I attended Crowdsourcing Week’s Brussels summit (which ran until Friday June 6th included, but I didn’t stay until then). Organized in Vilvoorde, a couple of miles outside Brussels, the event gathered crowdsourcing professionals, academics,...
Venture capital investment platform MyMicroInvest will present a live crowdfunding round at the CSW Summit in Brussels on June 5, 9:50 am Brussels local time and you can participate too -- from anywhere! The live crowdfunding session will present 2 innovative...
CSW Summit – Brussels will be dedicated to a series of four roundtable discussions aimed to provide in-depth insights into the collaborative economy.
Crowdsourcing is growing quickly in Europe and the number of organisations tapping into the crowd to create scalable solutions continues to raise steadily. Crowdsourcing is impacting various sectors from transportation to finance, to education and manufacturing. The...
From the editor: Paul Niederer, one of the top 10 global experts on crowdfunding throws light on how crowdfunding will evolve by 2020. Reposted from Paul's blog. Looking 6 years into the future, what can we expect crowdfunding to be in 2020. Firstly, the word...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2014 Looks to Highlight Organizational Transformations Through The Crowd Economy Singapore / Copenhagen / New York (May 20, 2014) – Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) announces its first European flagship conference in Copenhagen...
a 3D printer that prints makeup was launched at TechCrunch’s Disrupt NY Stage, where founder Grace Choi called the bluff on premium make up brands that sold make-up in exclusive colors with a high-price markup.
Focusing on customer-led innovation, the two-day CSW Summit Brussels conference on June 5 & 6 will connect an expanding crowdsourcing community in Belgium to European and global innovators in crowdsourcing and open innovation. Crowd participation is transforming...
Are you a student or startup who wants to attend the Crowdsourcing Week Summit in Brussels? Here are two special ways to get involved. In less than four weeks, Brussels will welcome the first-ever event to unite the crowdsourcing community in Belgium. Focusing on...
Mark Philpott, Corporate leader turned social entrepreneur and homeless man by choice, gave a talk at CSWGlobal14 that was a revelation. This post first appeared on his blog where he talks about his experiences at CSW Global in Singapore. I have just spent some time...
Wondering what you missed at CSW Global 2014, or were you there and want to relive the best moments? Check out the many amazing stats in the CSW Global 2014 Infographic (tweet this). A big THANK YOU to the speakers, delegates and volunteers who all contributed to a...
Nick NM Yap, the CEO of ROCKI, serial entrepreneur and a veteran of two successful Kickstarter projects (for ROCKI and the Omate Smartwatch) recounts his CSWGlobal14 experiences. Nick simply is a rockstar. Follow him @addlikefollow. Crowdsourcing Week Global, when I...
Got $100 in Bitcoins? How will you use it? MIT's Bitcoin Club has a plan - to distribute the $100 in Bitcoins to every undergraduate on campus this Fall and press the "play" button. They hope to follow and study how students use the digital currency on campus, while...
The NYPD, on Tuesday, reached out to citizens and encouraged them to share pictures with department officers via Twitter using the hashtag #myNYPD. Though there were many who shared positive pictures of police officers who put their life on the line for community...
What a week it has been! We have come to the end of an amazing week in Singapore that brought together the global community of innovators in the crowd economy and it truly has been exhilarating to listen to inspiring work that is changing the paradigm and disruption old and inefficient systems.
As you may know, I founded Crowdsourcing Week about 18 months ago and since then we have produced 5 one-day summits in Europe and North America and 2 week-long conferences in Asia. At the closing of our second flagship CSW Global conference in Singapore in April 2014,...