Tag: crowd culture
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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Seattle’s soccer team rose to the top through crowdsourcing
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...
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If the sun has so much energy why do we have to pay for anything?
“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...
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Time banking – what is it and why should you bother?
What’s your time worth? Some people might struggle to answer that question. But for time bank members it’s a no-brainer: one hour of time equals one Time Credit. Time banking is an old concept that dovetails neatly...
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CSW Summit Bangalore Recap
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...
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Final Countdown to CSW Summit Bangalore
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...
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Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 8
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...
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