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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...

Crowdcube raises over £5m for itself

Crowdcube raises over £5m for itself

Before today, UK equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has raised more than £173m from over 295,000 investors to complete 426 successful raises, and described itself as the world's leading investment crowdfunding platform. Minutes ago that status was confirmed when...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 15

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 15

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team A case study in the crowdsourcing age Learn about how scholars, companies and workers are using Mechanical...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 8

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 8

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team House leaders to vote on crowdfunding, Angel Investing Two bills are among more than 20 pieces of US...

$50m Ethereum heist had no easy answer

$50m Ethereum heist had no easy answer

This was not a drill. A week before the Brexit panic, panic gripped users and developers of the Ethereum blockchain when flagship application "The Dao" came under attack. The Dao is an example of a DAO: Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, a business whose rules are...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 1

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 1

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team How crowdsourcing will build the next $100 billion company Alphabet (formerly Google) Executive Chairman Eric...

A Recap of CSW Summit Johannesburg

A Recap of CSW Summit Johannesburg

CSW Summit Johannesburg on 24 June 2016 was Crowdsourcing Week’s first event in Africa. It was held on Day Two of the InnoLive 2016 conference presented by Innocentrix. The day’s presentations can be accessed here, and here is a brief recap on some of the event’s...

Choosing a crowdfunding platform that’s right for you

Choosing a crowdfunding platform that’s right for you

Once you’ve weighed the pros and cons of equity crowdfunding versus other ways of raising money, you as a company founder will still be faced by a bewildering array of options over funding portals. In any single country where the legislation has been passed, there can...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 23

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 23

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Crowdsourcing project to decode U.S Civil War telegrams The University of Minnesota in collaboration with The...

Is Africa being transformed by the crowd economy?

Is Africa being transformed by the crowd economy?

There is a radical change taking place in Africa, much of which is as a result of the emergence of the crowd economy. There are two key underlying reasons for this assertion. 1. Not only does Africa have a population that is forecast to grow from one billion today to...