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Top 9 Advances in Crowdsourced Applications To Watch Out
An edited version of this post first appeared on Virgin. Crowdsourcing in 2014 has experienced tremendous transformations and played a major role in the convergence of technology, business, and disruptive ideas to make the world a global stage of infinite...
Lighthouse to Challenge Kickstarter with Bitcoins
Lighthouse, a new crowdfunding application has gone public. What makes it stand out? Being powered by bitcoins it competes with traditional crowdfunding platforms and stirs up buzz around the value of Bitcoin. Lighthouse is spic-and-span for a number of reasons. It is...
This week in crowdsourcing: news roundup January 23
Here is our weekly roundup of latest updates in collaborative economy and crowdsourcing. Why crowdfunding is good for venture capitalists, what to expect from bitcoins, how to use crowdsourcing for brands and much more in this week’s edition. Sharing Economy &...
Road to Singapore: CSW Summits in Jakarta, Venice, Arctic Circle & Manila
We are taking the high road to Singapore and CSW Global 2015! Shaping up to become the most important international event and meet up on the crowd economy, CSW Global 2015 will touch upon a bold theme that will highlight how the crowd economy can disrupt billion...
Newly Announced Speakers at CSW Global 2015 will Talk Crowd Finance, Crypto 2.0, Creative Crowds and Cloud Computing
Emerging trends in Crowd Finance, Crowdsourced Art, Crypto 2.0 and the Cloud will be talk of the town, April 20-24 at CSW Global 2015 in Singapore. Take a peek below and meet the brains behind the cutting-edge ideas coming to Asia this spring! View full list of...
Predictions on Asia’s Growing Uncollared Workforce
They’re young, tech-savvy, and they embrace a mobile culture. They’re okay with their ‘traveling work spaces’— working cross timezones, anywhere in the world. Their social productivity is innate in the workflow—this new breed of uncollared workforce, mostly comprising...
Civic Crowdfunding Can Revive the Citizens-Politics Relationship
The relation between citizens and representative democracy is in a deep crisis, as indicated by a fall in the number of voters l in many countries all around the world. It's a global phenomenon caused by the wide gap, that is growing every day between...
This Week in Crowdsourcing: News Roundup January 16
Here's a curated, weekly roundup of interesting news on crowd-driven business, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, open innovation and the collaborative economy.Crowd Lab Print ContestThe North Face launched its Crowd Lab Print contest, inviting contributors and enthusiasts...
Local Motors LIVE Prints 3-D Car at Detroit Auto Show
Who says 3-D printing is for furniture or accessory pieces only? Not anymore. Local Motors has gone the extra mile with its first ever 3-D printed car unveiled at Detroit Auto Show on Monday, according to The Washington Post. The Strati roadster design was a...
Uber’s Massive Snowball Effect on the Automotive Sector
Remember the funny snowball effect in cartoons? That puny snowball, rolling on a snow-covered hillside about to smash the perky snowmen along the way? That which kids laugh and watch, rolling on the floor, perhaps trying to understand what’s happening on that episode....
4 Key Issues Facing Sharing Economy in Developing Nations
In the recent years there are some economic and social trends that are aiming at providing alternative and sustainable means of consumption. While Governments and companies around the world, are trying to influence consumer decisions, these disruptive trends have the...
OurCrowd’s Global Investor Summit Showcases the Israeli Startup Ecosystem
OurCrowd's Global Investor Summit (Dec 9-10 in Jerusalem, Israel) will bring together an A-list selection of cutting-edge Israeli startups, experienced angel investors, and a diverse array of industry professionals, advisors and mentors, Who is OurCrowd? OurCrowd is...
How Will the Crowd Economy Impact the Next Billion?
The third edition of Crowdsourcing Week Global 2015 will take place on April 20 - 24 at Singapore's inspiring Genexis Theatre at Fusionopolis. The week-long conference will focus on the promise and future of the crowd economy with the 2015 theme “Crowd Economy:...
Uber Lesson 101: Focus on the Public Before the PR
How can a week be so messed up for anyone?If you've not been snowed in with Snovember in the US, you would probably know the company in question is Uber. News from Uber has dominated my feed for all the wrong reasons -- and when it rains its pours they say. It will...
Smart City Collaboration: NYC’s Pay Phone Booths to Transform Into Free Hotspots
What is the future of public telephone booths, many of them decommissioned or just plain neglected? Of course many have been creatively repurposed. But these out-of-date installation now have a bigger calling. New York City Plans to replace its public telephone booths...
Virgin Galactic Tragedy
Yesterday was a tragic day for those of us excited about the new frontiers in space travel when the Virgin Galactic lost one of its pilots in a test space travel flight in the Mojave desert.My sincere condolences go out to the family and colleagues of the fallen pilot...
The ECN Crowdfunding Convention in Paris will Focus on the €2 Billion Crowdfunding Market
The European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) will launch the third edition of the ECN Crowdfunding Convention on 11th and 12th December in Paris, a high-level event for crowdfunding professionals and stakeholders from all areas connected to crowdfunding, including...
CSW Europe 2014: What Attendees are Saying
Photo Credit: Sebastiaan ter BurgCrowdsourcing Week Europe 2014 in Copenhagen saw participants from wide-ranging backgrounds taking in 5 key lessons on collaboration. Here's what attendees had to say about the event, which served to ignite the Nordic community...
10 Quotes from Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2014 (and the Ideas, Trends, & Insights Behind Them)
Photo Credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg Last week in Copenhagen, Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2014 saw the brightest minds in crowdsourcing gather to discuss what’s in store for the future of collaboration. Here are some favorite quotes from the conference, crowdsourced with...
Day 3: From Users to Movers with Crowdsourcing
Photo Credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg It’s an era of connectivity, where anybody can disrupt the existing system and turn things upside down. It is technology, new media and platforms for collaboration that drastically change the way we are used to working. Innovating...
Breakthrough in Collaborative Economy: the First ever Crowd Payments Platform
Photo Credit: Sebastiaan ter BurgCSW Europe 2014 marked the official launch of Mobbr.com – the first and the only crowd payments platform in the world. Pilot version ran in the Netherlands earlier this year and now it has already reached UK, Singapore and Russia. And...
Day 2: Future of Crowdfunding – Not only for “Super-early Adopters”
Photo credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg We have wrapped up Day 2 of CSW Europe with some food for thought on where crowdfunding is heading next. What is brand new today will be common tomorrow. But the challenge is to make investors and entrepreneurs grasp how to get to...
Investing in Women is Win-Win For All
Photo Credit: Sebastiaan ter BurgFemale entrepreneurship is much more than a social issue. Now it is an economic one with a rising generation of 'mumpreneurs' going out and challenging the existing gender imbalance of business.Building confidence“One of the main...