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Day 3 of CSW Global 2018 Shows How Organizations Can Better Serve the Individual

by Damon Brown | Oct 29, 2018 |

Individual and organization needs, particularly within government, can seem at odds, though Day 3 of our CSW Global 2018 conference on October 26 emphasized the importance of them evolving together. At its best, the organization...

How Horizon State Leads the Blockchain Charge

by Damon Brown | Oct 17, 2018 |

The blockchain discussion is often focused on the financial benefits – indeed, you can often catch new folks interchange “bitcoin” and “blockchain” in common conversation. The impact, though, will go well beyond fiat currencies...

Q&A with Oren Alazraki, CEO of Horizon State

by Clive Reffell | Oct 9, 2018 |

Horizon State has leveraged blockchain’s immutable distributed ledger technology to redesign the way that opinion is solicited, votes are cast, and collaborative decisions are made. Horizon State reshapes interactions between...

Global Recognition for Horizon State from Davos Organizers

by Clive Reffell | Oct 4, 2018 |

The World Economic Forum is the international, independent organisation behind the celebrated annual Davos event in Switzerland that under the attention of global media draws together 2,500 “business, political, academic, and...

Horizon State Blockchain Empowering the Vote and Our Philanthropy

by Damon Brown | Sep 19, 2018 |

How do you represent the crowd? For millennia, there have been many techniques to figure out the majority needs. Picture people raising their hands at an event, or clapping to choose the best choice, or submitting tiny pieces of...

Blockchain Democracy: Fixing a Wrecked System

by Shay Hershkovitz | Sep 12, 2018 |

Crowdsourcing is a new term, possibly coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson to describe how businesses were using the internet to outsource work to the crowd. In reality, crowdsourcing has been around for thousands of...

Changing Government Through Crowdsourcing

by Damon Brown | Aug 30, 2018 |

We’ve had one of the oldest crowdsourcing examples right under our nose. We vote every single day, whether it is an election of our next world leader, a response to “What do we want to eat?” at the family dinner table, or among...

Top Innovators Sign Up for CSW Global 2018 Conference

by Clive Reffell | Jul 18, 2018 |

Plans and preparations for our CSW Global 2018 crowdsourcing conference in October 2018 in Washington D.C. are well advanced. Delegates from 30+ countries have already booked to attend our fifth global conference where they will...

Mayor of London Has £1m For Community Projects Using Crowdfunding

by Clive Reffell | Jul 11, 2018 |

The Mayor of London recently announced his annual allocation of £1 million available to a range of grassroots community projects. Operating in conjunction with UK crowdfunding platform Spacehive, and co-ordinated through the...

Washington D.C. Will Host Crowdsourcing Week’s Global Conference, 24-28 October 2018

by Clive Reffell | Apr 4, 2018 |

Following a successful one day CSW Summit last June we are back in October to Washington D.C., the world’s acknowledged policy and innovation center, for a five day Global Conference that will be the biggest and boldest CSW...