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The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription
Nine years ago, I summed up 2010 as “the year that crowdsourced transcription finally caught on.” This seems like a good time to review the big developments in the field over the decade that 2010 launched. What the field looked like in 2010 It’s interesting to look...
Bold Open Innovation Sparking Both Business and Social Impact
Open innovation is a term coined by Henry Chesbrough in his 2003 book, “ Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology ”. Open innovation assumes that valuable ideas can come from inside or out of the company and can go to the market...
Rise of the Machines – How Crowdsourcing Solutions are Solving Problems for the Robotics Industry
Follow the news today and you’re likely to read something about how crowdsourcing is aiding advances in the robotics industry. This week alone we’ve seen stories concerning robots entering the healthcare industry, further advances in self-driving car technology, and...
We’ve Been Building Something BOLD
Over the last five years, Crowdsourcing Week has held conferences with some of the world’s largest tech pioneers and entrepreneurs. We’ve just finished our fifth global conference, which was last month in Washington DC. But, for our latest event, we’ve...
A Thousand Eyes Are Better Than Two
How do you scan an area of 305,000 sq km (118,000 sq mi)? This was the challenge for several countries in 2014, trying to solve the mystery of the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Tremendous effort and resources were put into finding the airplane’s remains,...
When Humans Meet AI: The Next Generation of Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing has been around for a very long time. Although the term was coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, editors at Wired, and though it is referred to as a form of Internet-based activities, there are many examples of projects which in retrospect can...
Four factors on why crowdsourcing can make you ready for future of work
Few skills which one can hone with the help of crowdsourcing and be ready for future of work.
How Enhanced AI Could Be Achieved Through Crowdsourcing Morality
With the rapid acquaintance of artificial intelligence (AI) the qualms and questions about whether robots could act immorally or soon choose to harm humans have also been raised. Some people are calling to put bans on robotics research while others are calling to...
Crowd Economy Work Opportunities in Sweden
Recent CSW articles have looked at Sweden’s role as a global leader of innovation and crowdsourcing. It is also the host country for our conference next March, CSW Arctic // Europe 2018. We are all aware the pace of change has become so rapid that educators find...
Artificial Intelligence Can Solve The Biggest Crowdsourcing Problem
The concept of crowdsourcing isn’t all that new and was born in 2002. However, the term “crowdsourcing” itself wasn’t coined until few years later when Wired used it for the first time to describe production in a marketplace that was digitally connected. Fifteen years...