In partnership with Digital Empowerment Foundation, Crowdsourcing Week Summit Bangalore will bring crowdsourcing and the crowd economy to centre stage in our first event held in India. Indian and international speakers, including Osama Manzar, Founder and Director of...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team House leaders to vote on crowdfunding, Angel Investing Two bills are among more than 20 pieces of US...
This was not a drill. A week before the Brexit panic, panic gripped users and developers of the Ethereum blockchain when flagship application "The Dao" came under attack. The Dao is an example of a DAO: Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, a business whose rules are...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team How crowdsourcing will build the next $100 billion company Alphabet (formerly Google) Executive Chairman Eric...
CSW Summit Johannesburg on 24 June 2016 was Crowdsourcing Week’s first event in Africa. It was held on Day Two of the InnoLive 2016 conference presented by Innocentrix. The day’s presentations can be accessed here, and here is a brief recap on some of the event’s...
Once you’ve weighed the pros and cons of equity crowdfunding versus other ways of raising money, you as a company founder will still be faced by a bewildering array of options over funding portals. In any single country where the legislation has been passed, there can...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Crowdsourcing project to decode U.S Civil War telegrams The University of Minnesota in collaboration with The...
A $50m hack sent the value of digital currency Ethereum tumbling yesterday (June 17) from around $21 to below $15, reported Business Insider in Singapore in response to Ethereum's own blog post release. The money is currently currently sitting in a locked fund and...
There is a radical change taking place in Africa, much of which is as a result of the emergence of the crowd economy. There are two key underlying reasons for this assertion. 1. Not only does Africa have a population that is forecast to grow from one billion today to...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Arcade City Austin is crowdsourcing rides on Facebook With no Uber or Lyft, a group of 32,000 members has...
The crowd economy is set to take Africa by storm, and CSW Summit Johannesburg on the second day of Innolive 2016 on June 24 will focus on collaborative innovation with the overall theme of “The Sharing Economy – Unlocking Africa’s Potential.” Local and international...
CSW Summit Tehran on May 20 was Iran’s first crowdsourcing/crowd economy conference. The event was attended by over 250 delegates at the National Library of Iran who enjoyed inspirational panel sessions and presentations featuring a lineup of Iranian and international...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Crowdfunding mania all over According to Jacqueline Woo's article crowdfunding is expanding too fast! How can...
I’ve always said that crowdsourcing is about passion, talents, skills and tangible resources. It’s already a major part of many people’s lives and it manifests itself at a personal level through contributing surplus assets, such as a spare bedroom, car space on a...
OnePlus launches 'the Lab' OnePlus has launched 'the Lab', its newest program for crowdsourcing OnePlus 3 reviews. If you want to give honest, crowdsourced feedback, sign up for the program here OnePlus is taking a brave move by asking its users to tell it like it is....
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team TAONR launches an 'intergenerational' crowdsourcing platform The Age of No Retirement has launched an online...
What is the equity crowdfunding definition, anyway? Are there any boundaries to what equity crowdfunding is, and what it is not? It depends very much on who you ask. Previously three aspects were critical for an offer to be considered “equity crowdfunding”: Offers via...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Google is crowdsourcing the name of the newest version of Android Any idea how to name the next version of...
We are very excited to be coming in June for our first event in Africa. Crowdsourcing Week is a global platform uniting thought leadership on the crowd economy and crowdsourcing. In collaboration with Innocentrix, an innovation business and technology service company,...
Crowdsourcing is a global practice, and we are excited to bring Iran’s first action-packed crowdsourcing summit to Tehran and showcase leading edge innovations in the crowd economy to an audience hungry for encouragement and opportunities in the business of sharing....
Epi Ludvik Nekaj's weekly vlog shares insights on crowd economy trends, crowdsourcing and more. In this week's video I am talking about "Be My Eyes" as an example of how we can use our time to help people through crowdsourcing resources. Be My Eyes is an iPhone app...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team JOBS is bringing equity crowdfunding to non-rich people The 'Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act' is aiming to...
The end of economic sanctions on Iran ended restrictions on Iranian trade, shipping and insurance. The International Monetary Fund estimates Iran’s GDP could grow by as much as 5% in 2016/17 from a standing start. And within this is an astonishing pent up demand from...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team. [Tweet "Read how DBS Bank, UNESCO and American Apparel are using crowdsourcing"] DBS Bank has partnered up...