Tag: government
A Sharing Economy Major Player Plans a Return to its Roots
The sharing economy is all about interface between crowds. Such as a crowd of car drivers and a crowd of people who want to go somewhere. Or as in the case of Airbnb, a crowd of people looking for somewhere to stay and a crowd...
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Crowdsourcing Unknown Details of a City’s Complex Public Transport Service
Mexico City is a sprawling metropolis that is home to almost 22 million people. Even though a 2016 crowdsourcing effort created a map of the routes serviced by self-employed bus drivers to make it easier to navigate the city, an...
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COVID-19: The Power of the Powerless Crowds, the Weakness of the Powerful Leaders
The extreme conditions of the Corona crisis lay bare the good, the bad and the ugly. As interesting as it was to observe how countries fight the same virus in different ways, it is equally fascinating to witness a strong...
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Same Coronavirus Threat, Different Responses Around the World
It is fascinating to see how different leaders choose to deal with a crisis like the coronavirus outbreak. Let’s compare three approaches: the “Populists,” the “Believers” and the “Proactives.” The Populists Solutions put...
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Open Innovation Platforms Share Human Brains and Ingenuity Like Airbnb Shares Spare Accommodation
These are the words of Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of the HeroX innovation platform. There is growing recognition among organization leaders that opening up challenges to a wider audience than just in-house...
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The Need for a Circular Economy-Based Global Construction Industry
A fundamental tenet of the sharing economy is to use resources more efficiently. At a time when all of us as individuals are increasingly asked to consider our use of air travel, single-use plastic products, and turning down...
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AI is Powering Breakthroughs in Many Markets and Sectors
Debates on the benefits of and threats from artificial intelligence are moving on. Projections of mass unemployment due to the loss of routine work are becoming more balanced by realisations that maybe 65% of children in primary...
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BOLD // Crowd 2.0 Powered by AI and Machine Learning
This is our theme for Crowdsourcing Week in 2020: BOLD // Crowd 2.0 powered by AI and Machine Learning. It’s where crowdsourcing takes a major transformative step rather than a series of incremental ones. At the same time as...
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CSW // Riyadh 2019: Leveraging The Power Of The Crowd To Build Tomorrow’s Economy and Find Breakthroughs
Each day, more technologies enable the practice of crowdsourcing to become more sophisticated and viable. From Airbnb for stays to BlaBlaCar and Careem in transportation, crowdsourcing and sharing economy companies have shifted...
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Will Weaponized Robots Give Us Enough Time To Tackle Climate Change?
Right now, around the world, the activist movement Extinction Rebellion is disrupting daily routines in major cities to highlight the dangers from man-made climate change attributed to using fossil fuels, and that time is...
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