Media coverage of crowdsourcing-related activities in the various sectors of the crowd economy landscape has graduated out of the specialist platforms focused on by the innovators and early adopters and in to a wider arena. It is widely expected that artificial...
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What fascinates people about services like Bitcoin is the dissolution of boundaries of nations and geographies. Online cryptocurrency allows people to get goods and services from across the world without needing to involve cumbersome legal red tape. However, the same...
In the 10 years since the iPhone was introduced the computer and video gaming industry has been shifting from stand-alone offline platforms (consoles and PCs) to a $multi-billion online industry with a host of new benefits and possibilities. Mass direct connectivity...
Our core aim here at Crowdsourcing Week is to empower leaders around the globe to push collaboration and innovation forward into the 21st century. As the global network and forum for the Crowd Economy, we connect people with the most groundbreaking ideas and best...
“The Future of Jobs” Report published in 2016 by the World Economic Forum said: “By one popular estimate*, 65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don’t yet exist.” (*Source: McLeod, Scott and Karl...
Our second CSW Summit in USA is in Seattle on October 5. This city is internationally recognised as being at the forefront of new movements and a home for some of the world’s largest corporations, including Microsoft and Amazon. It also intends to introduce a...
The concept of crowdsourcing isn’t all that new and was born in 2002. However, the term “crowdsourcing” itself wasn’t coined until few years later when Wired used it for the first time to describe production in a marketplace that was digitally connected. Fifteen years...
A few times each year I like to keep in touch with people I've met. There are no secrets in what I send out so I thought I'd share the content of my latest personal e-mail with a wider audience. Still ringing in my ears are the words of my good friend, Joe Schmidt...
Seattle is renowned as a US centre of disruptive new trends and both corporate developments and social movements. The home to global giants including Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing and Starbucks is our choice for CSW's second US Summit where our leading speakers and...
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 including Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing are...
We live in a technology-driven world, where information spreads like wildfire. However, this information can sometimes be very dangerous if it gets into wrong hands, while at other times it can be fairly valuable. For instance, a cybercriminal gets their hands on a...
In the internet of things, we’re all connected, all the time, to everything. It’s where the world is moving—your home, your car, your phone, your work. It’s like you can make a virtual copy of yourself to do things that would have required your physical presence even...
Whilst Morgan Stanley is heavily interested in blockchain technology, analysts at the investment bank are worried by how Bitcoin is extremely dependent on the governments’ acceptance and regulation for further growth. This was revealed even after the cryptocurrency...
Here at Crowdsourcing Week we are delighted to hold our second USA Summit in Seattle, a global hub of software skills and expertise and, as some say, “the spiritual home of artificial intelligence.” It also gives us the opportunity to flag up a major crowdsourcing...
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Q&A with Dyan Finkhousen, Director of Open Innovation at General Electric While the idea of open innovation is still fairly new, there are an increasing number of initiatives and companies that are getting value out of their efforts with this new collaborative...
CSW Summit Washington DC on June 15 brought together a famously distinguished group of crowdsourcing thought leaders and innovators to share insights and trends on how the second wave of the crowd economy is reshaping industries and transforming organizations. Between...
Crowdsourcing Week is delighted and excited to bring its first summit to Washington DC on June 15 2017. CSW Summit DC will focus on the second wave of the crowd economy. In the world of Hi + Ai, blockchain and gamification, both domestic and international industry...
Crowdsourcing can reduce costs, speed up project timelines, tap in to crowd intelligence and creativity, and engage citizens at all levels of corporate and government processes. It’s not just for new startups, iconic organisations including NASA and GE have specialist...
Reward and U.S. equity crowdfunding lets entrepreneurs and company owners take orders for products or trade shares for investment funds. Who would have thought in 2000 that it would be possible for business owners to raise seven-figure sums from people they didn’t...
Georg Fankhauser has spent much of his career as a Mergers and Acquisitions Consultant, successfully overseeing more than 80 company sales and acquisition projects in Switzerland, Germany and France. Since October 2016 he has also been co-founder and manager of KOSOVA...
Can open innovation stimulate critical improvements and breakthroughs that will provide direct benefits to the world? In recent years, many organizations have turned to open innovation to solve their toughest challenges and address their R&D needs. The use of...
Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future, it’s the present and increasing at a phenomenal rate driven by explosive growth of big data, inexpensive computing power and storage, and advanced algorithms like machine learning that enable accurate predictions to be...
We spoke to Maia Weinstock, an American science writer and a LEGO enthusiast. After seven years of accepting Maia’s designs for generic scientist figures the company announced in February 2017 it would launch her “Women of NASA” set of figures featuring five prominent...
Despite apparent greater control of a personal work/life balance open to remote workers and operators in the gig economy, these people often have higher levels of stress and sleep disruption. However, the flexibility offered by ICT has the potential to alter and...