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A Sharing Economy Major Player Plans a Return to its Roots
by Clive Reffell | Aug 21, 2020 | Collaborative Economy, Sharing Economy
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...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing Unknown Details of a City’s Complex Public Transport Service
by Clive Reffell | Jul 14, 2020 | Citizen Engagement, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing
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...
Read MoreCOVID-19: The Power of the Powerless Crowds, the Weakness of the Powerful Leaders
by Fiona Stoffer | Apr 16, 2020 | Crowd Causes, Crowdsourcing
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...
Read MoreSame Coronavirus Threat, Different Responses Around the World
by Fiona Stoffer | Mar 31, 2020 | Citizen Engagement, Mass Collaboration
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...
Read MoreOpen Innovation Platforms Share Human Brains and Ingenuity Like Airbnb Shares Spare Accommodation
by Clive Reffell | Mar 27, 2020 | cocreation, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation
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...
Read MoreThe Need for a Circular Economy-Based Global Construction Industry
by Clive Reffell | Mar 13, 2020 | Collective Intelligence, Future of Work
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...
Read MoreAI is Powering Breakthroughs in Many Markets and Sectors
by Clive Reffell | Feb 18, 2020 | Crowdsourcing, Future of Work
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...
Read MoreBOLD // Crowd 2.0 Powered by AI and Machine Learning
by Epi Ludvik | Feb 11, 2020 | Citizen Engagement, Collective Intelligence, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing
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...
Read MoreCSW // Riyadh 2019: Leveraging The Power Of The Crowd To Build Tomorrow’s Economy and Find Breakthroughs
by Clive Reffell | Nov 13, 2019 | CSW Conferences, News
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...
Read MoreWill Weaponized Robots Give Us Enough Time To Tackle Climate Change?
by Clive Reffell | Oct 17, 2019 | Crowd Causes
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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