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The Crucial Thing To Realize About Crowdsourcing

The Crucial Thing To Realize About Crowdsourcing

No doubt you've heard about crowdsourcing. What you might not realize is the power of crowdsourcing that can accelerate innumerable processes and innovations more efficiently—especially in the next two years, when another billion brains will join networked computers...

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – January 22

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – January 22

General Motors buys Sidecar's assets, NASA is crowdsourcing robotic arm concepts, US delegates will visit India for smart cities development and many more - we have a handful of interesting stories for our curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read...

Next Chapter for CSW’s Global Media Director

Next Chapter for CSW’s Global Media Director

We are pleased to share that after more than 3 years of actively building and shaping Crowdsourcing Week events around the world through content and speaker curation, Priti Ambani is stepping down as Global Media Director and moving into a new role. As part of a...

3 Outcomes Now That Bitcoin Has Failed

3 Outcomes Now That Bitcoin Has Failed

In a lengthy and compelling Medium post, Mike Hearn, a prominent Bitcoin developer and one of the pioneers in the cryptocurrencies industry, publicly declared that Bitcoin “has failed." He deliberately cited technical and people problems, summing up his major public...

Why London is a Pioneer in Crowd Innovation

Why London is a Pioneer in Crowd Innovation

For three consecutive years, Singapore has been the home of CSW’s weeklong global conference. This year, in its fourth edition, we are thrilled to take the Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016 to our new home: United Kingdom. With the theme, “Great Challenges, Massive...

These Tips Can Help You Succeed at Equity Crowdfunding

These Tips Can Help You Succeed at Equity Crowdfunding

Editor's note: This is the first of a three-part blog series of tips for executing a successful equity crowdfunding campaign.  Experience is one of the best teachers. A few weeks ago Crowdsourcing Week wrapped up our first ever equity crowdfunding campaign on...

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – January 15

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – January 15

Here's our curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team. In case you were offline for the past few days, we came across Indiegogo's trying to sell crowdfunding to big...

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – January 8

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – January 8

We found some interesting stories and updates giving us a hint on how crowdsourcing will impact organizations and sectors this year and beyond. For your good reads, here is our curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the...

Turning Great Challenges Into Opportunities at CSW Global 2016

Turning Great Challenges Into Opportunities at CSW Global 2016

Hyperconnectivity and disruption—every sector today is experiencing these powerful forces, and yet crowd-powered tools, platforms and approaches are still underutilized because of the lack of knowledge to maximize them. Traditional companies can already feel the dent...

GM and Lyft Joint Venture: A Foray on Smart Mobility?

GM and Lyft Joint Venture: A Foray on Smart Mobility?

Will the convergence of sharing economy and automotive industry transform the future of transportation? This week's breaking news says so. The biggest direct investment deal so far this New Year is General Motors (GM) investing $500 million in the ridesharing company,...

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – January 1

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – January 1

Today is the first page of a 366-page book so let's kickstart 2016 with a New Year's Day special of our curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team about crowdsourcing...

2016 is the Year of Impact and BOLD Moves at Crowdsourcing Week

2016 is the Year of Impact and BOLD Moves at Crowdsourcing Week

As I recap the last day of the year with a ton of lessons learned, 2015 was a remarkable year for all of us. I am confident that 2016 will be the year of Impact and BOLD moves at Crowdsourcing Week as the society is transitioning into the world of abundance. Despite...

10 Indispensable Open Innovation Platforms for Global Corporations

10 Indispensable Open Innovation Platforms for Global Corporations

The Internet has democratized the way we communicate and get new ideas. Read on for 10 indispensable open innovation platforms to help your organization effectively innovate with the crowd. Or click here for a January 2021 update.  Organizations, including Fortune 500...

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – December 25

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – December 25

Here's a Christmas day special of our curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team about sharing economy, crowdfunding, innovation and more.  Sharing economy is shaping...

How Governments Apply Crowdsourcing To Spark Citizen Empowerment

How Governments Apply Crowdsourcing To Spark Citizen Empowerment

Crowdsourcing. We talk about it. We educate people how to use it. But it is also an overused and underappreciated word, according to Forbes. Its influence is now spawning to government affairs thanks to the Internet. In 2013, President Obama called out to the federal...

Summit to Boost Collaborative Innovation in Africa

Summit to Boost Collaborative Innovation in Africa

Crowdsourcing Week, the first global platform uniting thought leadership on collaboration and crowdsourcing, will bring its first event to Africa. In collaboration with Innocentrix, an innovation business and technology service company, CSW Summit Johannesburg will...

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – December 11

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – December 11

Holiday season is already here and in a few more weeks, it will be 2016! And for this week, here is a curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team.  From Goldman Sachs...

Summit To Galvanise Crowdsourcing Ecosystem in the Middle East

Summit To Galvanise Crowdsourcing Ecosystem in the Middle East

Crowdsourcing Week is thrilled to announce the upcoming CSW Summit Tehran on May 20, 2016, in partnership with Eventbox, an events marketing and management platform. The agenda will focus on the crowdfunding and collaborative approaches that define a sharing economy....

8 Platforms Solving Mobility Globally

8 Platforms Solving Mobility Globally

As I write this article, Beijing has issued its first ever Red Alert on account of lethal air pollution. The “Airpocalyptic” view from my desk made me question the way we look at ridesharing and on-demand platforms. They are not just the next profit-making startup...

Top 10 Equity Crowdfunding Platforms in Europe

Top 10 Equity Crowdfunding Platforms in Europe

Crowdfunding is growing significantly and is forecasted to surpass venture capital funding in 2016 according to a recent report. The practice itself is more than doubling, every year according to Forbes. In 2015, $USD 34.4 billion, was raised across the...

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – November 27

Crowdsourcing News Roundup – November 27

Capping the week, we’d like to extend our Thanksgiving greetings to our readers. And of course, as part of our routine, here’s a curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week...

The New Era of Economic Abundance

The New Era of Economic Abundance

Last decade was about YOU - the next decade will be about WE. Welcome to the new world of what Epi Ludvik Nekaj refers to as “Crowd Capital”. Just as the democratization of content in the past decade led to structural disruption in media-related sectors, the emerging...