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This Week in Crowdsourcing: News Roundup February 6
The first week of February has come to an end and we are summing it up as always with a selection of latest news and developments in the collaborative economy. Crowdsourcing cybersecurity, e-governance, equity crowdfunding revolution and much more!Pioneering in...
CSW Global ’15: New Speakers will Demonstrate Power of Crowd Economy
Do you know how powerful the crowd economy is? Latest directions and in-depth insights on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and open innovation will be discussed at CSW Global 2015 in Singapore on April 20-24. Want to join the crowd? View full list of speakers here! Three...
Google to Develop its Own Ride-Sharing Service: Is it Game Over for Uber?
Uber could perhaps tells us what it feels like to be stabbed in the back. Don’t you think so? Is it a game over for the $40 billion dollar company now that tech behemoth Google is about to step on its turf?The search engine giant is planning to develop its own...
Are You Disruptive? CSW Global 15 Needs Your Creative Powers
The countdown has begun: Three weeks to submit your creative graphic designs for CSW Global 2015 and to win a grand prize and worldwide recognition! For the third consecutive year we have collaborated with Talent House India, to launch a search for crowdsourced...
Crowdsourcing: From Myth to Intrinsic Reality
It’s a good thing I’m not easily discouraged. In 2009, when I was sowing the seeds for what would become Crowdsourcing Week, a vehicle to enable dialogue and knowledge transfer on the principles of crowdsourcing, I read a piece titled, The Myth of Crowdsourcing, by...
This Week in Crowdsourcing: News Roundup January 30
The weekend is finally here! Here’s our weekly dose of the latest updates on - the World Economic Forum meeting, the power of crowdfunding on payment processes and real-estate ventures, why established brands flock to creative crowdsourcing sites, crowdsourcing in the...
2015 Global Crowdsourcing Survey – Our 2nd Annual Pulsecheck
We're back again fielding our seminal research about the crowd economy and all its various component parts - crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and crowd equity, open innovation and collective intelligence, the sharing economy and the peer-to-peer marketplace, online...
Top 9 Advances in Crowdsourced Applications To Watch Out
An edited version of this post first appeared on Virgin. Crowdsourcing in 2014 has experienced tremendous transformations and played a major role in the convergence of technology, business, and disruptive ideas to make the world a global stage of infinite...
Lighthouse to Challenge Kickstarter with Bitcoins
Lighthouse, a new crowdfunding application has gone public. What makes it stand out? Being powered by bitcoins it competes with traditional crowdfunding platforms and stirs up buzz around the value of Bitcoin. Lighthouse is spic-and-span for a number of reasons. It is...
This week in crowdsourcing: news roundup January 23
Here is our weekly roundup of latest updates in collaborative economy and crowdsourcing. Why crowdfunding is good for venture capitalists, what to expect from bitcoins, how to use crowdsourcing for brands and much more in this week’s edition. Sharing Economy &...
Road to Singapore: CSW Summits in Jakarta, Venice, Arctic Circle & Manila
We are taking the high road to Singapore and CSW Global 2015! Shaping up to become the most important international event and meet up on the crowd economy, CSW Global 2015 will touch upon a bold theme that will highlight how the crowd economy can disrupt billion...
Newly Announced Speakers at CSW Global 2015 will Talk Crowd Finance, Crypto 2.0, Creative Crowds and Cloud Computing
Emerging trends in Crowd Finance, Crowdsourced Art, Crypto 2.0 and the Cloud will be talk of the town, April 20-24 at CSW Global 2015 in Singapore. Take a peek below and meet the brains behind the cutting-edge ideas coming to Asia this spring! View full list of...
Predictions on Asia’s Growing Uncollared Workforce
They’re young, tech-savvy, and they embrace a mobile culture. They’re okay with their ‘traveling work spaces’— working cross timezones, anywhere in the world. Their social productivity is innate in the workflow—this new breed of uncollared workforce, mostly comprising...