Tag: blockchain
Crowdsourcing for the Evolution of a Decentralized Web
by Kirsty Goodary | Aug 20, 2020 | blockchain, Crowdsourcing
This article summarises the development of the internet to the current scenario where so many interactions are dominated by dealing with global tech giants. As data has become a more and more valuable commodity, those giants are...
Read MoreCSW’s Virtual Crowd Summit Summary, 7 May 2020
by Clive Reffell | May 12, 2020 | News
Attendees at our first Virtual Crowd Summit experienced an international panel of speakers discussing and sharing how crowdsourcing-led techniques and models can help organisations. Help them to not only face up to the economic...
Read MoreIn Blockchain We Trust
by Noam Levenson | Feb 28, 2019 | blockchain, Future of Work
Tech headlines today herald the potential impact of blockchain technology on industries such as crowdsourcing, transportation, and inter-company collaboration (supply chains). We’re inundated today with projects targeting these...
Read MoreWe’ve Been Building Something BOLD
by Clive Reffell | Nov 20, 2018 | News
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....
Read MoreBanks in a Blockchain Future
by Shay Hershkovitz | Nov 8, 2018 | blockchain, Crowd Finance
The banking industry has always been perceived as a bedrock of economic stability, but it is experiencing disruption at an increasing pace. A sea change in finance is being driven by technology, which is both expanding service...
Read MoreDay 3 of CSW Global 2018 Shows How Organizations Can Better Serve the Individual
by Damon Brown | Oct 29, 2018 | CSW Conferences, News
Individual and organization needs, particularly within government, can seem at odds, though Day 3 of our CSW Global 2018 conference on October 26 emphasized the importance of them evolving together. At its best, the organization...
Read MoreHow Horizon State Leads the Blockchain Charge
by Damon Brown | Oct 17, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration
The blockchain discussion is often focused on the financial benefits – indeed, you can often catch new folks interchange “bitcoin” and “blockchain” in common conversation. The impact, though, will go well beyond fiat currencies...
Read MoreQ&A with Oren Alazraki, CEO of Horizon State
by Clive Reffell | Oct 9, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Collaborative Economy, Mass Collaboration, Uncategorized
Horizon State has leveraged blockchain’s immutable distributed ledger technology to redesign the way that opinion is solicited, votes are cast, and collaborative decisions are made. Horizon State reshapes interactions between...
Read MoreHorizon State Blockchain Empowering the Vote and Our Philanthropy
by Damon Brown | Sep 19, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Crowdsourcing
How do you represent the crowd? For millennia, there have been many techniques to figure out the majority needs. Picture people raising their hands at an event, or clapping to choose the best choice, or submitting tiny pieces of...
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...
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