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,...
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LIVE Crowdfunding Round At CSW Brussels with MyMicroInvest
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: A Primer on the Collaborative Economy for Decision Makers
CSW Summit – Brussels will be dedicated to a series of four roundtable discussions aimed to provide in-depth insights into the collaborative economy.
Collaborative Economy in Belgium Needs a Regulatory Boost
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...
What will Crowdfunding Look Like in 2020
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...
CSW Europe 2014 Coming to Copenhagen October 14-16
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...
Four Ways 3D Printing is Changing Business Paradigms
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.
Crowd Economy Takes Center Stage at CSW Summit Brussels
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...
Call for Volunteers at CSW Summit Brussels
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...
Life Interrupted: My CSW Global Story, by Mark Philpott
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...
Infographic: Crowdsourcing Week Global 2014 by the Numbers
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...
Life Interrupted: My CSW Global Story by Nick NM Yap
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...
MIT Bitcoin Club Creates Campus Digital Currency Ecosystem
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...
#myNYPD Fail: When Crowds Hurt Your Outreach
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...
And that’s a WRAP – CSW Global’14 Has Participants Rooting for the Crowd Economy
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.
CTO, Crowdsourcing Week: How Does That Title Sound to You?
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,...
StarHub Announces Crowdtivate at CSW Global’14, will Crowdfund Asia’s Entrepreneurs
StarHub, Singapore’s telco giant announced its crowdfunding platform Crowdtivate, today, live at Crowdsourcing Week Global (CSW),’ 14 in Singapore. Crowdtivate will be the first telco backed crowd platform to serve Asia’s entrepreneurs, and future...
CSW Global 2014 is Off to an Energetic Start
And its off to a great start! Crowdsourcing Week kicked off its second week-long conference in Singapore at the beautiful Genexis theatre at Fusionopolis, Monday night. Conference attendees, collaborators and VIP’s enjoyed a special night, celebrating the second...
April 11: Join us at CSW 2014 After Party at JFDI
This Friday, April 11th JDFI.Asia is hosting an after-party in honor of the 2nd edition of Crowdsourcing Week, a week-long showing in Singapore with sessions from over 50 speakers from all over the world. The party will take place after CSW’s interactive C...
Crowdsourcing Week Summit – Brussels 2014 to Focus on Customer-Led Innovation Within Organisations
Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) announces the CSW Summit in Brussels on June 5-6, 2014, the first in a series of global summits planned for 2014.