Tag: crowd culture
Crowdsourcing for the Evolution of a Decentralized Web
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...
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Consumer Behavior During the Pandemic: Current Changes and Future Prospects
Since the beginning of the pandemic, it was clear that it will change consumer behavior once and for all. The pandemic has also shown us how little we know about responsible consumption. It became clear when people started...
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Building Ethical and Inclusive AI Through Bottom-up Community Collaboration
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is at the heart of the most disruptive innovation since the Industrial Revolution – the current Knowledge Revolution. It can potentially increase the speed, efficiency, and effectiveness of public...
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Same Coronavirus Threat, Different Responses Around the World
It is fascinating to see how different leaders choose to deal with a crisis like the coronavirus outbreak. Let’s compare three approaches: the “Populists,” the “Believers” and the “Proactives.” The Populists Solutions put...
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The Next Step in Business Audio? Ask the Crowd!
Story as Communication, From Caveman to Walkman When humans listen to a story something amazing happens. Each individual in a crowd reaches into their own personal memories to create and complete the scenes in which the action...
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5 Ways Equity Crowdfunding Provides More Than Capital Investment
Many successful businesses reach a stage where transformational expansion to take it to the next level, whether that might be developing the next version of a product or setting up a Sales and Marketing team, can’t be funded...
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Food Sharing App Tackles $1 Trillion Annual Wastage
A third of all the food produced in the world is thrown away. It represents an annual value of $1 trillion, and in the UK half the food is wasted in the home. It’s one of our planet’s greatest problems. There are millions of...
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A Q&A with our own Young Achiever Alex Plamada
Our Young Achiever Program 2018 aims to uncover a next wave of 25 exceptional movers, shakers and change-makers aged under 25 who are working or studying in the crowdsourcing sector. And who are already making an impact. We will...
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Build Crowdsourcing Business Models To Last
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...
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Iron and Steel Give Way to Data Centres as the Capital of Northern Sweden Transforms to a Sustainable Future
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...
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