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I’ll Sadly Miss Two Leaders in the World of Innovation

I’ll Sadly Miss Two Leaders in the World of Innovation

With sad regret I have recently seen the passing of two people who left an indelible mark both on the world of innovation and on me personally. Academic, business leader, author and “management guru” Professor Clayton Christensen, and serial entrepreneur Leila Janah,...

Can Crowdsourcing Influence Building Design More Than Architects?

Can Crowdsourcing Influence Building Design More Than Architects?

I learned recently that architects are involved in only 2% of the newly constructed built environment in the UK. A week later, a report released based on a housing design audit for England that had examined over 140 housing developments built since 2007 revealed that...

The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription

The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription

Nine years ago, I summed up 2010 as “the year that crowdsourced transcription finally caught on.” This seems like a good time to review the big developments in the field over the decade that 2010 launched. What the field looked like in 2010 It’s interesting to look...

A Guide to Financing a Book Through Crowdfunding

A Guide to Financing a Book Through Crowdfunding

A lot of new authors now are choosing to finance their e-book and cover their expenses throughout the writing process thanks to a crowdfunding campaign. You might be wishing you could write full-time but you couldn’t leave the stability of a paying job. The good news...

New for 2020: Investors Tapping into Crowd Intelligence

New for 2020: Investors Tapping into Crowd Intelligence

Crowdsourcing is proving to be the belle of the ball for attracting the attention of investors and sharing potential funding opportunities. Peer to peer lending has reached $25 billion while equity funding raised $2.5 billion through crowdsourcing. In the last five...

Crowdsourcing to Improve Food Production and Recycle Surplus

Crowdsourcing to Improve Food Production and Recycle Surplus

Projections show that feeding an estimated world population of 9.1 billion people in 2050 will require raising overall food production by some 70% from 2005/07 levels, reported the High Level Expert Forum – How to Feed the World in 2050. This prompts an imminent need...

An Inspiring Book Can Be a Perfect Personal Treat or Gift

An Inspiring Book Can Be a Perfect Personal Treat or Gift

For many of us it’s the time of year when thoughts turn to gift-giving. Gifting a book to someone shows you have thought about their particular interests and searched for something that suits them as an individual. And a message in the book itself customises your gift...

A Snapshot of Crowdsourcing in Asia

A Snapshot of Crowdsourcing in Asia

When considering crowdsourcing across an entire continent, this can be only a cross-section of what has caught our attention. The selected examples have been chosen to show the flexibility and almost ubiquitous nature of crowdsourcing as a powerful tool for aims...

Crowdsourcing in Saudi Arabia

Crowdsourcing in Saudi Arabia

Early this year a submission from Tam Development made it to the shortlist of nominees in the BOLD Awards 2019. In partnership with 20 government and private entities in Saudi Arabia and the wider Arab region, and under the leadership of their CEO and co-founder...

CSW Global 2019 San Francisco Recap

CSW Global 2019 San Francisco Recap

The focus of CSW Global 2019 was to unlock crowd participation breakthroughs and explore the use of open innovation techniques and practices becoming more mainstream – becoming the next big thing in our lives. CSW’s Founder and CEO Epi Ludvik kick-started Day One by...

Powering Social Issue Breakthroughs Through Open Innovation Design

Powering Social Issue Breakthroughs Through Open Innovation Design

At first glance the open innovation sector can appear a crowded  and perhaps confusing space. A closer look reveals many platforms have focused down on to one area of specialist business interest. OpenIDEO is one such platform and provides an interface for social...

Entrepreneurship Through Open Innovation Is A Journey, Not A Status

Entrepreneurship Through Open Innovation Is A Journey, Not A Status

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...

Open Letter – Humans Are Born Innovators

Open Letter – Humans Are Born Innovators

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...

Generation Share: The Changepreneurs Saving the Planet

Generation Share: The Changepreneurs Saving the Planet

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...

From the Crowd – To the Crowd

From the Crowd – To the Crowd

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...

Say Goodbye to Coding for Industrial Production

Say Goodbye to Coding for Industrial Production

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...

Crowdsourcing Week Conference Helps Homeless in the Host City

Crowdsourcing Week Conference Helps Homeless in the Host City

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...

Resolving Open Innovation Challenges in Mechatronics

Resolving Open Innovation Challenges in Mechatronics

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...

What Can Crowds do Against Manipulation of and by Governments?

What Can Crowds do Against Manipulation of and by Governments?

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...