Mark Philpott, Corporate leader turned social entrepreneur and homeless man by choice, gave a talk at CSWGlobal14 that was a revelation. This post first appeared on his blog where he talks about his experiences at CSW Global in Singapore. I have just spent some time...
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Infographic: Crowdsourcing Week Global 2014 by the Numbers
Wondering what you missed at CSW Global 2014, or were you there and want to relive the best moments? Check out the many amazing stats in the CSW Global 2014 Infographic (tweet this). A big THANK YOU to the speakers, delegates and volunteers who all contributed to a...
Life Interrupted: My CSW Global Story by Nick NM Yap
Nick NM Yap, the CEO of ROCKI, serial entrepreneur and a veteran of two successful Kickstarter projects (for ROCKI and the Omate Smartwatch) recounts his CSWGlobal14 experiences. Nick simply is a rockstar. Follow him @addlikefollow. Crowdsourcing Week Global, when I...
MIT Bitcoin Club Creates Campus Digital Currency Ecosystem
Got $100 in Bitcoins? How will you use it? MIT's Bitcoin Club has a plan - to distribute the $100 in Bitcoins to every undergraduate on campus this Fall and press the "play" button. They hope to follow and study how students use the digital currency on campus, while...
#myNYPD Fail: When Crowds Hurt Your Outreach
The NYPD, on Tuesday, reached out to citizens and encouraged them to share pictures with department officers via Twitter using the hashtag #myNYPD. Though there were many who shared positive pictures of police officers who put their life on the line for community...
And that’s a WRAP – CSW Global’14 Has Participants Rooting for the Crowd Economy
What a week it has been! We have come to the end of an amazing week in Singapore that brought together the global community of innovators in the crowd economy and it truly has been exhilarating to listen to inspiring work that is changing the paradigm and disruption...
CTO, Crowdsourcing Week: How Does That Title Sound to You?
As you may know, I founded Crowdsourcing Week about 18 months ago and since then we have produced 5 one-day summits in Europe and North America and 2 week-long conferences in Asia. At the closing of our second flagship CSW Global conference in Singapore in April 2014,...
StarHub Announces Crowdtivate at CSW Global’14, will Crowdfund Asia’s Entrepreneurs
StarHub, Singapore's telco giant announced its crowdfunding platform Crowdtivate, today, live at Crowdsourcing Week Global (CSW),' 14 in Singapore. Crowdtivate will be the first telco backed crowd platform to serve Asia's entrepreneurs, and future movers &...
CSW Global 2014 is Off to an Energetic Start
And its off to a great start! Crowdsourcing Week kicked off its second week-long conference in Singapore at the beautiful Genexis theatre at Fusionopolis, Monday night. Conference attendees, collaborators and VIP's enjoyed a special night, celebrating the second year,...
April 11: Join us at CSW 2014 After Party at JFDI
This Friday, April 11th JDFI.Asia is hosting an after-party in honor of the 2nd edition of Crowdsourcing Week, a week-long showing in Singapore with sessions from over 50 speakers from all over the world. The party will take place after CSW's interactive Crowdfunding...
Crowdsourcing Week Summit – Brussels 2014 to Focus on Customer-Led Innovation Within Organisations
via Press release Singapore / Brussels / New York (April 7, 2014) - Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) announces the CSW Summit in Brussels on June 5-6, 2014, the first in a series of global summits planned for 2014. The two-day summit with BNP Paribas Fortis as a...
Crowdsourcing Week Picks Winners of Animated Signature Video Contest on Talenthouse
Last month, Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) in partnership with Talenthouse India launched a contest to create an animated signature video that would bring out the mission and goals of Crowdsourcing Week. We are thrilled to find a winner + 2 runner up entries from 25 entries...
StarHub Joins Crowdsourcing Week as Global Partner in Singapore for 2014 Conference
Via press release Crowdsourcing Week (CSW), the global conference dedicated towards providing the crowdsourcing ecosystem with platforms and content, has announced StarHub as its official telco partner for Crowdsourcing Week Global 2014. As official telco,...
The Future is Coming to Singapore at CSW Global ‘14
The Future is coming -- in less than 7 days to Crowdsourcing Week in Singapore from April 7-11. Are you ready to join us? 50+ sessions are planned through the week with more than 40 open-internet pioneers, enterprise leaders, and innovators who understand the...
Ollie Halimatussadiah: Crowdsourcing is Integral to Asian Culture
What are some of the crowd economy opportunities in Indonesia? Indonesia has been engaging in crowdsourcing for some time. What are the challenges and opportunities of embracing digital collaboration in this region? Techpreneur Ollie Halimatussadiah discusses in the...
Another Way of Rewarding the Crowd: Gamification
Relationship between crowdsourcing and gamification One of the key elements in a crowdsourcing initiative of any kind is the motivation of the crowd. It's true that the crowdsourcing initiative will need a large enough crowd, that a clearly defined task must be...
Arun Mehra: Brands Have Faith in their Crowd to Deliver Authentic Brand Identities
Registered attendees for Crowdsourcing Week Global ’14 already represent over 20 countries across 5 continents so far. To give you a little taste of what to expect at the conference, we are bringing a new ‘Speaker Spotlight’ series that showcases speakers’ work and...
Crowdsourcing: A Shift in Talent Acquisition
Business enterprise nowadays pushes competition by maximizing the use of technology such as the “cloud”. The concept of the “cloud” has been popular due to the advent of readily available software programs through the use of the Internet. These cloud applications...
We have Winners! Top Crowdsourced Designs for CSW Global 2014 Announced
We just concluded our crowdsourced poster contest on 99designs; inviting designers to contribute a poster featuring an inspiring quote related to collaboration and innovation. After crowdsourcing a line of amazing Crowdsourcing Week t-shirts from 99designs for last...
This Week In Crowdsourcing: News Roundup, March 15
A curated, weekly roundup of interesting news on crowd-driven business, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, open innovation and the collaborative economy. The public was simply watching and waiting to find out what happened to Malaysian Flight 370, until Digital Globe made...
Exciting Opportunity For Students and Startups: Join us in Singapore for CSW ’14
Do you want to attend the Crowdsourcing Week Global '14 conference but are a strapped-for-cash student or startup? Apply for a startup or student rate or become a volunteer. Singapore is calling! The CSW team is gearing for a stellar conference with the best minds...
Malaysian Plane MH370 Crowdsourcing Search Signals Rise of the Digital Humanitarian
The international crowdsourcing search to find Malaysian Flight 370 has brought into focus, the role of technology, hyperconnectivity and social media in crisis and humanitarian response. Since DigitalGlobe, opened their crowdsourcing platform, Tomnod to scour...
Join the International Crowdsourced Search Effort
Can a crowdsourced effort find Malaysian Airlines plane MH370? Can you help? Malaysian Airlines plane MH370 is missing, vanished into thin air with 239 passengers on board. Combined search and rescue efforts of teams from a number of countries China, Malaysia,...
Nanjira Sambuli: Crowdsourcing Can Help Us Relearn Africa
The Crowdsourcing Approach to Data Collection [#Crowdchat Recap] Nanjira Sambuli of iHub discusses crowdsourcing for citizen awareness campaigns and her recently developed framework for the viability of election-based crowdsourcing in the March 5, 2014 Twitter...