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Collaborative Engagement to Shape the Future of Crowdsourcing

Collaborative Engagement to Shape the Future of Crowdsourcing

Wikistrat and Crowdsourcing Week are organizing an exclusive, virtual exercise called “The Future of the Crowdsourcing World.” It will take place from September 27 to 29, 2016 and you can be part of it. Through taking part you will understand your industry trends,...

5th ECN Crowdfunding Convention is a must-attend event

5th ECN Crowdfunding Convention is a must-attend event

Crowdsourcing Week is pleased to support the European Crowdfunding Network and tell you about the 5th ECN Crowdfunding Convention taking place 3-4 November 2016 in Paris at Le Hub Bpifrance. From potential Brexit effects on fintech to blockchains for crowdfunding the...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 16

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 16

Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – Yoko's crowdsourced project to fight gender violence; China to use online crowdfunding to help restore parts of the Great Wall; scientists turning to crowdsourcing in elusive search for...

Time banking – what is it and why should you bother?

Time banking – what is it and why should you bother?

What's your time worth? Some people might struggle to answer that question. But for time bank members it's a no-brainer: one hour of time equals one Time Credit. Time banking is an old concept that dovetails neatly with the sharing economy. Members offer their skills...

CSW Summit Bangalore Recap

CSW Summit Bangalore Recap

CSW’s Summit in Bangalore on September 10 was the first Crowdsourcing Week event held in India, co-hosted by the Digital Empowerment Foundation. The day’s presentations will be available soon and we will update this article with a link. In the meantime what follows is...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 9

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 9

Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – crowdsourcing a documentary on The Beatles; crowdfunding future cities; global crowdsourcing contest to predict epileptic seizures and more ... Crowdsourcing The Beatles: how Ron Howard's new...

Rethinking Roles in Open Innovation Teams

Rethinking Roles in Open Innovation Teams

In my role as a teacher in post-graduate Business Process Management I continually work with groups of students who are professionals from different organizations with different organizational cultures. One of the recurring major challenges within organizations that...

Final Countdown to CSW Summit Bangalore

Final Countdown to CSW Summit Bangalore

Crowdsourcing Week, in partnership with the Digital Empowerment Foundation, is delighted to bring its first summit to India on September 10 in Bangalore. It will focus on crowdfunding and collaborative approaches that define a sharing economy and local and...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 2

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 2

Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – South African website crowdsourcing reports of xenophobic violence; Google is crowdsourcing Android Wear watch face designs; crowdfunding site Kickstarter has launched in Singapore; and more ......

Is India on the Verge of Entering Full-Fledged Crowd Economy?

Is India on the Verge of Entering Full-Fledged Crowd Economy?

The second largest populated country in the world — India — is today the world’s third largest startup ecosystem where disruptors are bridging gaps in on-demand services, employment, resource utilization and digital literacy among other categories. But are these...

Equity Crowdfunding Tips From Around The World

Equity Crowdfunding Tips From Around The World

There is nothing better than learning from those who have done it before. I have recently interviewed seventeen companies who have been through equity crowdfunding, and heard their insights about what they thought of the experience, and what worked best for them. They...

What role will platform cooperatives play in the sharing economy?

What role will platform cooperatives play in the sharing economy?

Fairmondo is an eBay-like marketplace specialising in ethical goods and services. But sellers and buyers don’t just use the platform. They own it. It’s one of a number of platform cooperatives hoping to shake up the sharing economy through community-run alternatives...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 26

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 26

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking and must-read news – major banks working together on a digital currency, Siemens joining building technology crowdsourcing community, MindSumo helping college students through crowdsourcing and many more ... Four...

Bitcoin has a pretty bad reputation

Bitcoin has a pretty bad reputation

Bitcoin’s own website says “Bitcoin allows exciting uses that could not be covered by any previous payment system.” That’s certainly coming true, it is now often associated with cyber-criminals and drug dealers, and to be honest that association isn't entirely...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 19

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 19

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read - crowdsourcing the fight against cancer, using machine learning to predict out-of-sample performance of trading algorithms; Canadian Olympians crowdfunding their way to Rio and many more ... ...

India’s Top 10 Crowdfunding Platforms

India’s Top 10 Crowdfunding Platforms

The global crowdfunding industry generated about $34.4 billion in capital last year. No reliable numbers are available for India though it is estimated it accounts for a small fraction of this. Yet local crowdfunding sites are proliferating and drawing attention from...

Deliveroo’s attempted new pay deal a return to “bad old days”?

Deliveroo’s attempted new pay deal a return to “bad old days”?

Deliveroo sparked a rebellion among a section of its London delivery workers after trying to impose a unilateral change to their pay structure. It was going to change from £7 per hour plus £1 per each delivery to a straight £3.75 per delivery. In essence this was a...

How co-creation is shaping the future of cities

How co-creation is shaping the future of cities

As the famous urban activist Jane Jacobs once wrote, "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." It's a truth that lies at the heart of a number of urban co-creation projects, which tap...

The Ethereum Trilogy Part II – The Two Chains

The Ethereum Trilogy Part II – The Two Chains

I wrote my first post about the DAO heist expecting it to be the end of the story. If it were a film, it would end with the successful hard fork, defeat for the attacker and our heroes triumphantly setting the blockchain back to normal. However, the story didn't end...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 12

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 12

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read – Democracy is getting a reboot on the blockchain; Startup using machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields; Moovit speeding up their delivery of real-time updates and many more...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 5

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – August 5

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read - AI and crowdsourcing remaking the legal profession; Kickstarter creating over 300,000 jobs; Internet's third wave coming and many more ... Artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing are remaking...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 29

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 29

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup July 15 , July 22 of the breaking news and must-read – Airbnb releasing a new poll on sharing economy, Goldman Sachs offering online lending platform, Crowdcube planning a secondary market for equity crowdfunding and more ... ...

How to Crowdfund Without a Lead Investor

How to Crowdfund Without a Lead Investor

“Lead investors” are well-versed, experienced investors who spend the time conducting due diligence on a company, and then invest a large amount in an equity crowdfunding campaign. Lead investors are a catalyst for unlocking investment from others: the funds they...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 22

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 22

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read - Crowdsourcing transforming the workplace; different crowdsourcing project for public service; crowdsourcing supporting machine learning and many more .. How Crowdsourcing Is Transforming The...