Crowd Culture Archives - Crowdsourcing Week Blog

5 Ways Equity Crowdfunding Provides More Than Capital Investment

Posted by Clive Reffell | Mar 19, 2019 | Crowd Finance, Crowdfunding | 0 |

Food Sharing App Tackles $1 Trillion Annual Wastage

Posted by Clive Reffell | Dec 4, 2018 | Crowd Causes, Social Business | 0 |

A Q&A with our own Young Achiever Alex Plamada

Posted by Clive Reffell | Aug 29, 2018 | CSW Conferences, News | 0 |

Build Crowdsourcing Business Models To Last

by Thomas Kohler | Apr 18, 2018 |

Increasingly visible crowdsourcing platforms like Threadless scale quickly by harnessing the innovation power of crowds and capitalizing on networking effects. However, failure cases such as Quirky, show that sustaining ventures...

Iron and Steel Give Way to Data Centres as the Capital of Northern Sweden Transforms to a Sustainable Future

by Clive Reffell | Mar 2, 2018 |

Our two-centre conference next month in Swedish Lapland begins in the coastal city of Luleå, a city transitioning from a centre of traditional heavy industry and timber production to a digitised, sustainable future providing...

Seattle’s soccer team rose to the top through crowdsourcing

by Clive Reffell | Jul 27, 2017 |

The location of our CSW Summit in October 2017, Seattle in Washington state, USA, has a reputation as a place where movements begin. The modern coffee bars, underground music, grunge – all began in Seattle. Major corporations...

If the sun has so much energy why do we have to pay for anything?

by Clive Reffell | Oct 19, 2016 |

“Desert wastelands absorb enough solar energy in six hours to power the world for a year.” I was amazed when I read this in Peter Fisk’s book Gamechangers about disruptive brands and businesses. Other commentators don’t sound as...

CSW Summit Bangalore Recap

by Claudia Parms | Sep 12, 2016 |

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...

Final Countdown to CSW Summit Bangalore

by Clive Reffell | Sep 6, 2016 |

Crowdsourcing Week, in partnership with the Digital Empowerment Foundation, is delighted to bring its first summit to India on September 10 in Bangalore. It will focus on crowdfunding and collaborative approaches that define a...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 8

by Ejona Blyta | Jul 8, 2016 |

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team House leaders to vote on crowdfunding, Angel Investing Two bills are...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 1

by Ejona Blyta | Jul 1, 2016 |

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team How crowdsourcing will build the next $100 billion company Alphabet...

Countdown to Crowdsourcing Week’s first African Summit on June 24

by Clive Reffell | Jun 14, 2016 |

The crowd economy is set to take Africa by storm, and CSW Summit Johannesburg on the second day of Innolive 2016 on June 24 will focus on collaborative innovation with the overall theme of “The Sharing Economy – Unlocking...