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How To Drive Successful Digital Transformation Of An Enterprise

Successful digital transformation (with examples) streamlines organisations to be more agile, people-oriented, innovative, customer-centric, and efficient.

Crowdsourcing Debuts in the Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary has added ‘crowdsourcing’ to its famous lexicon, highlighting its prevalent usage today! This development follows the inaugural global conference on Crowdsourcing in Singapore earlier this month, that saw attendees and speakers from over...

Crowdsourced Models Disrupting Business as Usual

Crowdsourced Models Disrupting Business as Usual

Crowdcentric business models are disrupting the way we start, scale or diversify businesses today and day 3 of programming at Crowdsourcing Week highlighted just that. June 6 opened with presentations from Paul Neiderer, ASSOB, Darren Westalke of Crowdcube and Leo...

Crowdsourcing Week Announces Winners of the Startup Challenge

Aaannd we have the winners of the Startup Challenge! We have four winners and they are all some great apps and with global representation from Greece, France, India/UK and Germany. The startups were picked on the basis of pitch, business model and crowdfunding...

Citizen Empowerment Is All about YOU

Can citizens be empowered through crowdsourcing? Can we co-create our own constitution? Can we help our government to design better policy? Can we help industry and scientists solve some of the biggest problems in healthcare? Can we build better communities through...

Best Practices for Brand Engagement, Crowdsourcing for Creatives

It is finally here! The first global conference on crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding is underway in Singapore and the atmosphere is electric with some stellar speakers and delegates from all over the world. Crowdsourcing Week was inaugurated on a...

Crowdsourcing Turns Social Media into Social Productivity

Crowdsourcing Turns Social Media into Social Productivity

‘Likes don’t save Lives’ – this simple but impactful message by UNICEF puts everything in perspective: social media as we know it is great, but what happens after the like, tweet or share? How can we give social media a little edge to live on longer and be more...

José María Figueres: Crowd Intelligence Can Solve Big Issues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNdNudlvPo8 José María Figueres is a businessman, politician and no stranger to innovation. As President of Costa Rica (1994-1998) at the age of 39, he created a comprehensive national development strategy based on the tenets of...

“Crowd Design for Good” Competition Announces Winners

Crowdsourcing Week 2013 is thrilled to announce the five winning designs for our “Crowd Design for Good” campaign that crowdsources art for fun and a great cause. Crowdsourcing Week partnered with 99designs and Kiva to empower developing communities around the world...

Crowdsourcing Week Offers Crowdfunding Workshop For Startups

We are pleased to announce the Crowdfunding Workshop for Startups —the first one offered in Asia—that will give entrepreneurs like you the opportunity to pitch your idea, learn about and explore the unlimited potential in crowd finance. You will network with industry...

Shelley Kuipers: Participation is The New Brand

Chaordix is an early supporter of Crowdsourcing Week and Shelley is on our Board of Advisors. She will deliver a talk on Growing Global Brands through Crowdsourcing in Singapore. In this presentation, Shelley will reveal how brands are being transformed by tapping the...

Will Pressure from the Crowd Help Improve Your Health?

You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local defibrillators. Via TED, Lucien Engelen is a technologist...