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Can Artificial Intelligence have a Conscious Sense of Right and Wrong?

Posted by Epi Ludvik | Jun 25, 2020 | Crowd Creativity, Mass Collaboration | 0

Crowdfunding Projects Around the World to Tackle the Impact of Coronavirus

by Clive Reffell | Apr 24, 2020 | Crowdfunding

Here is a snapshot of how various forms of crowdfunding are being used around the world to help tackle the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Donations There is phenomenal UK public support for Special Forces veteran Captain...

COVID-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...

Crowdsourcing Global Collective Intelligence Through Prize Challenges to Tackle COVID-19

by Clive Reffell | Apr 14, 2020 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

While governments and global pharmaceutical corporations search for an ultimate long-term solution, a life-saving vaccine, response to the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up many near-term challenges. Prize challenges communicated...

Same 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...

Using Crowdsourcing to Combat Coronavirus

by Clive Reffell | Mar 10, 2020 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing

To combat spread of the coronavirus, this week the Italian Government announced a lockdown of an area in northern Italy that is home to 16 million residents. That has very quickly been extended and the entire population of Italy...

A Snapshot of Crowdsourcing in Asia

by Clive Reffell | Nov 26, 2019 | Crowdsourcing

When considering crowdsourcing across an entire continent, this can be only a cross-section of what has caught our attention. The selected examples have been chosen to show the flexibility and almost ubiquitous nature of...

Powering Social Issue Breakthroughs Through Open Innovation Design

by Clive Reffell | Sep 11, 2019 | Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

At first glance the open innovation sector can appear a crowded and perhaps confusing space. A closer look reveals many platforms have focused down on to one area of specialist business interest. OpenIDEO is one such platform...

Harnessing AI to Crowdsource the Diagnosis of Incurable Diseases

by Clive Reffell | Jul 31, 2019 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing

We are now quite used to seeing the disruption that’s taking place in many marketplaces due to the combination of new technology and mass connectivity in the hands of visionary startups, unencumbered by the ‘rules’ of...

In Blockchain We Trust

by Noam Levenson | Feb 28, 2019 | blockchain, Future of Work

Tech headlines today herald the potential impact of blockchain technology on industries such as crowdsourcing, transportation, and inter-company collaboration (supply chains). We’re inundated today with projects targeting these...

“In order to have a breakthrough, you have to break something”

by Epi Ludvik | Feb 26, 2019 | Crowdsourcing

I wish I had come up with that line, but I must give credit to Joe Polish. It neatly sums up the times we’re living in, where the pace and scale of change are disrupting many established business models and social norms, and...