Aurelie Wen is Managing Partner at Agorize for North America, based in Montreal, Canada. Agorize is a 100-strong open innovation tech company that brings together companies and an astonishing five million innovators from 185 countries. It is “the missing link between...
A world without the Internet is unimaginable. Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee. Currently connecting around 4.3 billion people worldwide, which represents 57% of the total world population, the Internet is a core pillar of the modern information society. The highest usage...
There’s a new generation of entrepreneurs. They see themselves as change-makers, activists building businesses to save the planet. Like Greta Thunberg, they know that time is running out. Fed up with what they see as ‘corporate inertia’, they’re creating breakthrough...
Problem: Convey Business Principles So They Will Be Used - Solution: Audio Theater What if someone shows you a video of a person walking into an office and sitting down in a chair? You see it all. There’s nothing left for the imagination. All your thinking has been...
In a world where everyone talks about the next industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, what would make coding special? What would a differentiator, a breakthrough, not just another nice-to-have feature? Our answer at WonderLogix is to use of plain English versus code...
Agorize began as a French-based open innovation challenge platform that connects businesses and innovators from all over the world. Since it started in 2010 it has hosted over 200 challenges, connected with five million innovators from 185 countries, and earlier this...
Crowdsourcing Week and the crowdsourcing design platform 99designs launched an online t-shirt design contest to engage the creativity of the crowd and encourage participation in helping the homeless in San Francisco, which is the host city of our CSW Global 2019...
In our July 2019 article that featured Surcle, the open innovation challenge platform in the electronics hardware sector, we mentioned briefly a challenge that was live at the time. Zollner Elektronik AG had launched The Protocol Converter Challenge in an effort to...
This is the third in a series of articles covering parts of the book I am writing about possible solutions to modern democracy's challenges. Join the discussion so we can use the power of crowdsourcing to build on ideas and make them better. Government touches...
The banking and financial services sector is becoming more strategically focused and technologically advanced. It has to respond to growing consumer expectations while trying to defend market share against an increasing array of competitors who are each trying to eat...
After six successful years of events that focus on all the paradigms that come with the crowd economy, our #CSWGlobal19 conference next month in San Francisco will take a huge leap forward, solidifying its status as THE learning and networking experience that unlocks...
Crowdsourcing Week and 99designs has launched an online t-shirt design contest designed to engage the creativity of the crowd and encourage participation in helping the homeless in San Francisco. For those interested in entering, you will need to create t-shirt...