Tag: asia
Google’s Tests of an App to Crowdsource Business Information and Speech Recordings Attract Mixed Response
by Clive Reffell | Nov 30, 2020 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing
Google is running closed beta testing for its own new app called “Task Mate.” It asks users to perform simple tasks in exchange for a payment that can be cashed out in local currency. The Task Mate app is currently available on...
Read MoreA Snapshot of Crowdsourcing in Asia
by Clive Reffell | Nov 26, 2019 | Crowdsourcing
When considering crowdsourcing across an entire continent, this can be only a cross-section of what has caught our attention. The selected examples have been chosen to show the flexibility and almost ubiquitous nature of...
Read MoreFielding Open Innovation Challenges in Agri-tech
by Clive Reffell | Jul 15, 2019 | Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation
As the population grows at an ever faster and faster rate, transforming how the world feeds itself is going to be a necessity. Even though up to a third of the food currently produced goes to waste, incremental improvements to...
Read MoreBlockchain Democracy: Fixing a Wrecked System
by Shay Hershkovitz | Sep 12, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is a new term, possibly coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson to describe how businesses were using the internet to outsource work to the crowd. In reality, crowdsourcing has been around for thousands of...
Read MoreChanging Government Through Crowdsourcing
by Damon Brown | Aug 30, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration
We’ve had one of the oldest crowdsourcing examples right under our nose. We vote every single day, whether it is an election of our next world leader, a response to “What do we want to eat?” at the family dinner table, or among...
Read More10 Memorable Quotes from Singapore’s Founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew
by Epi Ludvik | Mar 23, 2018 | News
As Singaporeans mourn for the loss of nation’s founding prime minister, we at Crowdsourcing Week would like to pay tribute to Lee Kuan Yew’s achievements in turning Singapore into one of the most progressive nations in the world...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing News RoundUP – December 2
by Ejona Blyta | Dec 2, 2016 | News
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – How Asia Is adopting crowdfunding from the West; how to use crowdsourcing to drive corporate sustainability innovations; how crowdsourcing is allowing...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing News RoundUP – October 14
by Ejona Blyta | Oct 14, 2016 | News
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – The latest project to come out of Lego’s crowdsourcing platform; overcoming Europe’s biggest disconnect; crowdsourcing leading to better...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing News RoundUP – October 7
by Ejona Blyta | Oct 7, 2016 | News
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – crowdsourcing sea change; crowdfunding coming with a new guarantee; blockchain startup Antshares raising $4.5m through crowdsourcing and more …...
Read MoreCSW Summit Bangalore Recap
by Claudia Parms | Sep 12, 2016 | CSW Conferences, News
CSW’s Summit in Bangalore on September 10 was the first Crowdsourcing Week event held in India, co-hosted by the Digital Empowerment Foundation. The day’s presentations will be available soon and we will update this article with...
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