Decentralization and Deglobalization deliver a more even distribution of power in society, and it’s Crowdsourcing Week’s theme in 2022
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A #1 Business Model of the Decade: the Crowd Economy
Almost two years ago Peter Diamandis, founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, tipped the crowd economy to be a top business model of the decade.
Top 5 Crowd Testing Platforms
On-demand crowdsourced research through crowdtesting platforms obtains real user feedback to ensure software reliability at an incredibly fast speed.
Top 5 Crowdsourced Data Annotation Solutions
Data annotation platforms can vet crowdsourced applicants who want to carry out tasks, and monitor their on-going performance to ensure quality service
Hacker On-Demand
In cybersecurity news, leading provider Synack has announced an on-demand service delivered by crowdsourced hackers, called Synack Campaigns.
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...