The historic setting of the Regent Street Cinema in London witnessed the first day of Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016, a conference dealing with massive changes in how we do business. First sessions of the morning looked at the wide picture of the changing times we are...
Ahead of CSW Global 2016, April 11-15, Roland Harwood, Co-Founder and Managing Director of 100%Open, shares practical and pragmatic ways to make that all important breakthrough in finding your open innovation ecosystem. Join Roland at Crowdsourcing Week Global on...
With just a week to go until CSW Global 2016, now is the perfect time to share some of the questions that will be tackled during the event. As London get's ready to host five days of cutting edge content across Crowd Finance and Crowdfunding, Smart Cities and...
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 is preserving the wilderness Read the story of the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve launching...
Vlada Pechenaya, Growth Marketing Specialist at on-demand mobile workforce platform Twentify, talks about increasing mobile adoption around the world making the smartphone a natural choice for the development of crowdsourcing capabilities in the gig economy Today, any...
Ahead of CSW Global 2016, April 11-15, we caught up with one of our event speakers, Heather Leson, Program Manager at the Qatar Computer Research Institute. Here, Heather shares insights of how her work, driven by a mission to engage people and build communities for...
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. Boon launches its crowdsourcing referrals platform publicly Who else is trying to crowdsource everything?...
In the first of a two part series, Nick NM Yap, Founder of smart, wireless music system ROCKI, talks about why crowdfunding has hit a healthy level of maturity, leading us to the brink of a golden era. Nick is a guest speaker and co-host of a special workshop,...
There are three weeks to go before CSW Global 2016 takes London by storm, bringing together some of the brightest and most innovative minds and pioneers leading the shift to the crowd economy. With the theme Great Challenges, Massive Opportunities, CSW Global 2016...
Ahead of our CSW Global conference, talking place in London, April 11-15, I was honored to be a special guest at the Social Media for Empowerment Awards & Summit in Delhi, produced by Digital Empowerment Foundation. In this video, I share insights of what I...
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 contest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of...
Head over to the Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016 hub for more insights, expertise and passion of the thought leaders and innovators speaking at this year’s conference. Join us 11-15 April in London for a week of fresh ideas and insights on the global Crowd...
Editor’s note: This is the third and last installment in a blog series on tips for executing successful equity crowdfunding campaign and four communication strategies. Here are links to Part One and Part Two. In my two previous blogs, I shared the first seven...
Ahead of our CSW Global conference, talking place in London, April 11-15, in my fourth video I am talking about Patrum, a platform which harnesses crowdsourcing and collaboration among art lovers for the restoration of arts works within Vatican churches. Joining us as...
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. Crowdsourced models for Chinese lingerie startup O2, a Chinese lingerie startup, has tapped crowdsourcing in...
With less than five weeks to go until the start of Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016, we wanted to shine a light on 10 Crowdfunding Platforms in the UK. Crowdfunding has proven itself popular in the UK in its relatively short history, having created a successful...
Head over to the Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016 hub for more insights, expertise and passion of the thought leaders and innovators speaking at this year’s conference. Join us 11-15 April in London for a week of fresh ideas and insights on the global Crowd...
In my last blog post, I talked about how disruptors are getting disrupted and elimination of the business ‘middle man.’ Today I want to look back at the first wave of the Crowd Economy and the impact it has made since its birth at the height of the last recession. But...
Are you a student or startup who wants to attend our Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016 in London? In less than six weeks, London will play host to our fourth event to unite the global crowdsourcing community. With this year's theme of “Great Challenges, Massive...
In my third video, I am discussing a platform called Economy of Hours, which offers freelancers and sole traders the opportunity to buy and sell their time and skills. Soon the future of work may be defined for millions of people with this kind of trend, making it...
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 can evolve the mining industry Ever thought of mining industry' data being crowdsourced?...
With less than six weeks to go until the start of Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016, here is a quick snapshot of five things you should definitely know about our five-day event. Whether you are a speaker, partner, attendee or thinking about joining us, here are a few...
Head over to the Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016 hub for more insights, expertise and passion of the thought leaders and innovators speaking at this year’s conference. Join us 11-15 April in London for a week of fresh ideas and insights on the global Crowd...
In Denmark’s capital, cycling and citizen engagement are bywords woven into the city’s culture—and this week the two have been rewarded with Copenhagen City Council’s announcement that it’s investing big in new intelligent traffic signal technology. With a budget of...