Tag: big data
BOLD // Crowd 2.0 Powered by AI and Machine Learning
This is our theme for Crowdsourcing Week in 2020: BOLD // Crowd 2.0 powered by AI and Machine Learning. It’s where crowdsourcing takes a major transformative step rather than a series of incremental ones. At the same time as...
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Can Crowdsourcing Influence Building Design More Than Architects?
I learned recently that architects are involved in only 2% of the newly constructed built environment in the UK. A week later, a report released based on a housing design audit for England that had examined over 140 housing...
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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...
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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...
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Why Crowdsourcing is Your Ultimate R&D
The smartest businesses know that they don’t have the power anymore. The people do. The conversation has shifted from focused, monolithic companies telling the consumer what they need to widespread, decentralized networks built...
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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...
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Why Blockchain-based Artificial Intelligence Needs Human Input
Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future, it’s the present and increasing at a phenomenal rate driven by explosive growth of big data, inexpensive computing power and storage, and advanced algorithms like machine learning...
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CSW Summit in Sweden’s Arctic Circle, March 15-19
Why CSW chose Swedish Lapland for its Summit in March Sweden is recognised as a nation at the forefront of the sharing economy, stemming from an inherently high level of social consciousness and supportive government policies...
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Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – November 11
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – How a Trump presidency affects real estate crowdfunding; why bike companies are turning to public money; CrowdFlower announces a scientific advisory board...
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Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – October 14
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...
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