In cybersecurity news, leading provider Synack has announced an on-demand service delivered by crowdsourced hackers, called Synack Campaigns.
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Crowd-based Trends in Innovation for Education
Open innovation challenges are a crowd-based innovation for education, stimulating extracurricular ideas and solution innovations from students
5 Difficult Business Issues Where Collective Intelligence Can Play An Outstanding Role
Three inherent factors give collective crowd intelligence enormous potential for solving the most important and complicated business issues
Learn how new AR and VR tech applications are transforming 7 key business sectors
This article has many augmented reality and virtual reality examples that demonstrate the growing importance of this technology
The Future Arrived Early: Augmented and Virtual Reality Technology Trends
After a virtual reality concert took place inside a Minecraft game, this article takes a look at other recent AR and VR technology trends
The Important Role of Crowdfunding for Agriculture
Crowdfunding for agriculture will accelerate the innovation in new foodstuffs and agritech required to feed over 9 billion people by 2050
How to 10X R&D Using Connected Innovation Intelligence
At Crowdsourcing Week we champion the benefits of open innovation as a means to accelerate the development of breakthroughs, solutions and inventions. A growing number of organisations utilise open innovation platforms to go beyond in-house R&D teams, who work in...
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are the Future
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, provide a flat, secure and democratic structure for people to collaborate towards achieving agreed aims.
Crowdsourcing Advertising Content in a Changing Industry
The concept of crowdsourcing remains sometimes misunderstood, and can still be confused by non-users with outsourcing. Before I launched Crowdsourcing Week in 2012 I ran a virtual advertising agency in New York City, and so I feel perfectly well qualified to talk...
What is Open Innovation?
Open innovation is a process that goes beyond an organization’s own research and development resources and enlists the support of outside help
The Crowdsourced World of Freelancing and Remote Working in 2025
Freelance jobs and the remote working future of work have already arrived for a large number of the online white-collar workforce. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report published in October 2020, 84% of employers are set to rapidly digitalize...
Crowdsourcing Week Presents its Ultimate Resource for All Things Crowdsourcing
Our commitment to being the global leader and innovation platform for all things crowdsourcing is founded on a mission to inspire and power breakthroughs through collaboration with our crowdsourcing partners. Those partners mean that through Crowdsourcing Week’s...
Q&A with Jay Kaplan, CEO of Crowdsourced Cybersecurity Platform Synack
With more people working from home these days and relying on digital services, the security of websites and apps has become even more important to companies. At the same time, many white-hat hackers have had more free time to lend their skills to bug bounty platforms...
The First Crowdsourced NFT and Crowdsourcing NFT Appraisals
Through possession of non-fungible tokens, NFTs, any of us can be the owner of digital works of art, books, music and video content, including iconic moments in sport or other performances and events. Their use extends to event tickets, anything collectible and...
The Ways Crowdsourcing Helps All Parties in the Retail Ecosystem
Technology has hurt traditional retailing, no question about it. Online shopping has transformed consumer behaviour and a growing switch away from physical trips to stores has been accelerated by pandemic lockdowns and social distancing regulations. Yet technology is...
Will Digitalism Provide a Beneficial Social Structure or Help Create Greater Divisiveness?
Opportunities created by digitization, and the massive boost to personal mass-communication that smartphones delivered, have always excited and fascinated me. I founded my virtual advertising agency Ludvik & Partners in New York City in 2008. In 2012 I launched...
When to Consider a Specialist Curated Crowd Within Open Innovation
When seeking open innovation solutions for vexing problems, many large organizations and companies think they have a binary either/or choice. The perceived choice is to go down a broad crowdsourcing route with a wide range of non-expert potential problem-solvers, or...
Largest Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform in the World Democratizes Access to Cash Flow Assets
Property investment is one of the four most common types of investments, alongside cash, bonds and shares. Of the four, real estate has been the best performing investment in modern history. Though through lack of access to sufficient funding, most people have been...
A Q&A with Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity Firm Bugcrowd’s Founder and Chairman, Casey Ellis
The need for cybersecurity has grown exponentially, which has been a boost for providers such as Bugcrowd. Bugcrowd was the first of what is now a number of firms who engage crowds of “ethical hackers” on a freelance/gig economy basis. The key aim through...
Crowdsourcing in the Circular Economy
Much of the work and focus in the circular economy is based around disrupting standard linear economy business models of “take-make-waste” to ones where higher proportions of resources can be recycled with minimal disposal. Through using waste as a resource to be...