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A Sharing Economy Newcomer Aims to Disrupt the UK Energy Market

A Sharing Economy Newcomer Aims to Disrupt the UK Energy Market

We recently ran articles on the increasing decentralization of sustainable energy production and energy distribution. In August 2017 a new type of disruptive energy supplier launched in the UK. After successfully raising almost £500,000 through reward crowdfunding,...

Leading Companies In Learning Will Invest In Augmented Reality

Leading Companies In Learning Will Invest In Augmented Reality

Imagine you are in a coffee shop. You work for a global organization that has a workforce all over the world. These workforces are different though, they are not in one office but dispersed in coffee shops, at home, and co-working spaces. You slip on your...

Crowdfunding in Sweden

Crowdfunding in Sweden

Crowdfunding in Sweden continues to grow and make headlines, from startups using donations-for-rewards crowdfunding as a sales channel for innovative products to quickly achieve high turnover, to the electric vehicle manufacturer Uniti raising €1.2m through its own...

Energy Sustainability and Decentralization (Part II)

Energy Sustainability and Decentralization (Part II)

In Part 1 we looked at decentralization of electricity generation, largely due to the availability of affordable equipment for domestic-scale production from renewable sources. Part 2 looks at the distribution side of the industry, where digitization will enable...

Humans, Robots and the Future of Work

Humans, Robots and the Future of Work

This is a series of blog posts in relation to The Hyperloop of Innovation and Future of Work. First we worked in fields, then factories, and now everywhere and anytime through devices connected to the internet. But what’s next for the future of work? According to Jim...

How Enhanced AI Could Be Achieved Through Crowdsourcing Morality

How Enhanced AI Could Be Achieved Through Crowdsourcing Morality

With the rapid acquaintance of artificial intelligence (AI) the qualms and questions about whether robots could act immorally or soon choose to harm humans have also been raised. Some people are calling to put bans on robotics research while others are calling to...

The Evolution of Kickstarter/Indiegogo

The Evolution of Kickstarter/Indiegogo

Kickstarter and Indiegogo have come along way since they opened their doors to artists and filmmakers back in 2009/2008. Now, nearly a decade on it is clear things are changing. With Indiegogo recently announcing the launch of their marketplace and with news of...

Energy Sustainability and Decentralization (Part I)

Energy Sustainability and Decentralization (Part I)

The benefits of a move away from relying on carbon/fossil fuels are well documented. Various forms of increasing worldwide devastation that are the evident impact of climate change and global warming - droughts, wildfires, floods, powerful tropical storms, climate...

Decentralization is Crowdsourcing Week’s theme in 2018

Decentralization is Crowdsourcing Week’s theme in 2018

Decentralization is our theme for 2018. The word has rebellious and transformative connotations, stemming from the sometimes turbulent devolvement of historically central-held power over property, wealth and justice to regimes of democratic government, a right to work...

Crowd Economy Work Opportunities in Sweden

Crowd Economy Work Opportunities in Sweden

Recent CSW articles have looked at Sweden's role as a global leader of innovation and crowdsourcing. It is also the host country for our conference next March, CSW Arctic // Europe 2018. We are all aware the pace of change has become so rapid that educators find it...

Sweden is a Crowdsourcing Leader

Sweden is a Crowdsourcing Leader

Sweden is recognised as being at the forefront of using crowdsourcing to develop both business and community social opportunities. Perhaps it’s an almost inevitable extension of central government policy to eradicate gender discrimination and treat everyone equally....

Sweden is a Global Innovation Leader – and that’s official!

Sweden is a Global Innovation Leader – and that’s official!

CSW's next major international conference in March 2018 will be held in Sweden, which a century ago was among the poorest nations in Europe. It’s a small country, home to just 0.13% of the global population. Yet today it is a global leader among the world’s most...

Recap of excellent CSW Summit Seattle

Recap of excellent CSW Summit Seattle

The day was an exciting, high energy whirlwind of delegates hearing from top US and international thought-leaders operating in the crowdsourcing and various crowd economy sectors about their latest visions and endeavors. It included Dylan Berry, the LA-based music...

Final Countdown to CSW Summit Seattle

Final Countdown to CSW Summit Seattle

Crowdsourcing Week is delighted and excited to bring its first one-day summit to Seattle on October 5 2017. CSW Summit Seattle will focus on the second wave of the crowd economy and trending topics including collective intelligence (AI + HI), microtasking,...

New Jobs in the Crowdsourcing Sector

New Jobs in the Crowdsourcing Sector

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...

An Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to BlockChain [Infographics]

An Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to BlockChain [Infographics]

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...

How Digital Tokens and ICOs Work for Video Gamers

How Digital Tokens and ICOs Work for Video Gamers

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...

New Work Opportunities in Crowdsourcing

New Work Opportunities in Crowdsourcing

“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...

Artificial Intelligence Can Solve The Biggest Crowdsourcing Problem

Artificial Intelligence Can Solve The Biggest Crowdsourcing Problem

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...