Customer communications can sometimes make or break a brand. Good customer support helps retain prime customers, it can change the opinions of people who complain, it can up-sell to boost revenue, and provide feedback for the rest of an organization to better...
A crowd of Canadian truckers are driving across the country to protest against mandatory Covid vaccinations that were introduced on January 15. Hundreds of truckers set off from Delta in British Columbia on Sunday January 23, expecting to take a week to reach Canada’s...
Crowdsourcing Week’s Theme of 2022 I believe 2022 will be a pivotal year for how we live and work, and for many aspects of the crowd economy. Decentralization and deglobalization deliver a more even distribution of power in society, and it’s our theme in 2022. There...
Almost two years ago Peter Diamandis, the entrepreneur perhaps best known for being founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, wrote his prediction of seven business models that will capture and dominate the 2020s. At the top of his list was the Crowd Economy....
To succeed in today's global market and create positive brand awareness there is an increasing need for organizations to improve user experience of their websites, apps and other software. Helping companies to launch their websites and mobile apps to the public...
Robots, drones or vehicles need artificial intelligence based on reliable data to achieve high levels of dependable autonomy. Medical service providers and space exploration need mass volumes of data analysed and assessed to draw correct conclusions from future data....
Cybersecurity is a fast growing sector, expected to be worth over $345 billion by 2026. With higher levels of remote working among office workers, hackers have been keen to exploit the relatively low security of residential internet connections as entry routes to...
Education is going through a massive transition. A long-established structure, largely unchanged since the 19th century, has been forced to finally grasp 21st century technology, plus its attitudes and behaviours, at a comparative overnight pace. Different factors,...
The collective intelligence of crowds is increasingly becoming a tool for solving various issues for many companies and organizations. However, these are often very specific and secondary tasks. More positively, at least three inherent factors give collective...
Outside of gamer communities, AR and VR came to many people’s attention when the Oculus Rift headset creators generated $2.5 million of orders through Kickstarter crowdfunding in 2012. Four years later, Facebook bought the business for $2 billion. There are several...
So many articles these days start with “Covid lockdowns greatly accelerated the development of tech and its adoption for remote and virtual work and meetings, blah blah.” We start, though, with a true world-first. With live performances an impossibility, many...
The world’s population is expected to have grown by over a third from 2009 to 2050, an additional 2.3 billion people. To feed this number of people, food production will have to increase by around 70% from the 2005/07 levels (source: The World Bank). Meeting this...
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...
DAOs, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, provide a flat, secure and democratic structure for people to collaborate towards agreed aims. Think of them as computer-driven businesses without fatcat bosses, where the aims and codes of conduct are embedded in...