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A Thousand Eyes Are Better Than Two

by Shay Hershkovitz | Jul 3, 2018 |

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...

Why Crowdsourcing is Your Ultimate R&D

by Damon Brown | May 22, 2018 |

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...

When Humans Meet AI: The Next Generation of Crowdsourcing

by Shay Hershkovitz | Apr 19, 2018 |

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...

Why Blockchain-based Artificial Intelligence Needs Human Input

by Clive Reffell | May 3, 2017 |

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...

CSW Summit in Sweden’s Arctic Circle, March 15-19

by Clive Reffell | Jan 27, 2017 |

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...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – November 11

by Ejona Blyta | Nov 11, 2016 |

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...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – October 14

by Ejona Blyta | Oct 14, 2016 |

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...

Smart Cities, Sharing Economy and Mobility at CSW Europe 2016

by Clive Reffell | Oct 12, 2016 |

Big data is a market currently estimated to be worth around $40bn and projected to reach $66.8bn by 2021, according to Ben Rossi in Information Age. And up to October 2016 there have been 22,800 questions posted on Quora related...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 9

by Ejona Blyta | Sep 9, 2016 |

Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – crowdsourcing a documentary on The Beatles; crowdfunding future cities; global crowdsourcing contest to predict epileptic seizures and more …...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 2

by Ejona Blyta | Sep 2, 2016 |

Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – South African website crowdsourcing reports of xenophobic violence; Google is crowdsourcing Android Wear watch face designs; crowdfunding site Kickstarter...