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A Q&A with our own Young Achiever Alex Plamada

A Q&A with our own Young Achiever Alex Plamada

Our Young Achiever Program 2018 aims to uncover a next wave of 25 exceptional movers, shakers and change-makers aged under 25 who are working or studying in the crowdsourcing sector. And who are already making an impact. We will invite them to our CSW Global 2018...

Enter to WIN Over $15,000 in Prizes!

Enter to WIN Over $15,000 in Prizes!

We have amazing prizes to give away that will help your organization achieve new levels of success. They include CSW Global 2018 conference tickets, consultation time with some of our our amazing conference partners, a cryptocoin workshop and copies of latest...

How Crowdsourcing is Changing Business

How Crowdsourcing is Changing Business

The power of crowds, who can link together and organize effectively through smart mobile technology, is disrupting traditional power bases at political, corporate, media and financial levels. The rise of populist political leaders who communicate with their...

What’s Next for Gig-Economy Payments?

What’s Next for Gig-Economy Payments?

Sometimes I work with freelancers. No, that's not true. I turn to freelancers almost every day: I ride Lyft and order food from Uber-Eats. When I go on a vacation I use Airbnb; when I shop I visit Etsy.com. Sometimes I ask for creative and marketing assistance on...

Q&A with Rob Israch, CMO, Tipalti

Q&A with Rob Israch, CMO, Tipalti

California-based Tipalti, founded in 2010 by serial entrepreneur Chen Amit and underground VC Oren Zeev, was created to address the difficulties associated with making mass global payments. It does this through a comprehensive cloud-based solution that automates all...

A Complete Guide to Building Smart Mobile Apps on Blockchain

A Complete Guide to Building Smart Mobile Apps on Blockchain

Blockchain is probably the most remarkable innovation of the modern digital world. It remains one of the most promising technologies with the potential to transform and improve the global economy. Many businesses are keen to adopt Blockchain technology to increase the...

Crowdsourcing Fueling Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing Fueling Open Innovation

There is a natural tension between intellectual property and intellectual growth. Companies value their ideas and processes, as it differentiates them from other businesses, but they have to let go of some of their secrecy and power to truly bloom. The pendulum has...

Q&A with Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of HeroX

Q&A with Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of HeroX

Christian Cotichini has over 20 years of experience personally leading startup and high growth technology companies. He is also a successful angel investor as well as a serial entrepreneur. He founded Absolute Software, a leader in computer security and asset...

Crowd Gigs Are International

Crowd Gigs Are International

The U.S. Department of Labor recently put out a report on the state of freelancers and gig workers. As one of the largest studies in the space, it showed that the percentage of short-term workers was actually down slightly from 2005 when the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

The Best Motivation Always Comes From Within

The Best Motivation Always Comes From Within

Many giant companies have something in common: they are constantly engaged in crowdsourcing activities with their customers. Whether for ideation, research and development, testing or marketing, obtaining ideas or services from a large group of people can solve...

Top Innovators Sign Up for CSW Global 2018 Conference

Top Innovators Sign Up for CSW Global 2018 Conference

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 be able to explore latest crowdsourcing...

How Crowdsourcing is Making Science Smarter

How Crowdsourcing is Making Science Smarter

Major scientific discovery has traditionally been the playground of one group: the elite. It’s no coincidence that Darwin, Copernicus, and others legends came from well-off backgrounds as scientific breakthroughs often require equipment, access, time and privilege not...

Blockchain, Digital Assets, and the Changing World of Finance

Blockchain, Digital Assets, and the Changing World of Finance

Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies provide a revolutionary way of creating, maintaining, and securing decentralized networks. The emergence of these networks has enabled a whole range of decentralized applications; applications that threaten to...

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

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

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 Greater London Authority, community project...

A Thousand Eyes Are Better Than Two

A Thousand Eyes Are Better Than Two

How do you scan an area of 305,000 sq km (118,000 sq mi)? This was the challenge for several countries in 2014, trying to solve the mystery of the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Tremendous effort and resources were put into finding the airplane’s remains,...

Looking Ahead to New Healthcare Work Opportunities

Looking Ahead to New Healthcare Work Opportunities

Healthcare spending is increasing significantly around the world, due to aging and increasing populations, developing markets, advances in medical treatments, an increase in chronic diseases, rising obesity levels and climbing labor costs.  New technologies promise...

Why Crowdsourcing is Your Ultimate R&D

Why Crowdsourcing is Your Ultimate R&D

The smartest businesses know that they don’t have the power anymore. The people do. The conversation has shifted from focused, monolithic companies telling the consumer what they need to widespread, decentralized networks built by consumers themselves. Today’s top...

From Uber to Hospitals: How Blockchain Could Change Our World

From Uber to Hospitals: How Blockchain Could Change Our World

Depending on who you ask, blockchain may be humanity’s greatest Ponzi scheme or the solution to everything from cancer to credit card transaction fees. The reality most certainly lies somewhere in between. When we theorize about the future of disruptive tech, the...

Fintech Disruptors Create New Work Opportunities

Fintech Disruptors Create New Work Opportunities

In an era of major disruption to the banking industry, the traditional model has changed. On one hand, specialist apps snipe at the edges of the one-stop-shop service that main street banks aim to provide to meet all and any of their customers’ financial requirements....

What is Cryptocurrency?

What is Cryptocurrency?

You can’t look in the news today without some Bitcoin enthusiast or some dumbfounded reporter trying to make sense of cryptocurrencies. It’s seemingly replaced Game of Thrones as the subject of every coffee shop conversation, yet very few actually understand the...