Tag: mobility
The Power of Crowdsourcing for Telcos
by Clive Reffell | Aug 17, 2020 | Crowdsourcing
With the imminent arrival of 5G services, network providers are vying to provide the best possible services and consumer expectations are rising. In order to monitor changes to service delivery and relative customer satisfaction...
Read MoreFrom Lecture Theatres to Living Rooms: the New Normal of Education
by Catalina Schveninger | May 20, 2020 | Collaborative Economy, Future of Work
While the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked an immediate need for online education, it has also triggered the unbundling of the entire education industry. This, coupled with learner demands for flexible formats, will mean that the...
Read MoreThe Growing Gig-Economy Spurs Demand for Online Payment and Banking Services
by Clive Reffell | Jun 20, 2019 | Future of Work, Open Innovation
With young people finding it increasingly hard to find quality and meaningful work, more and more are turning to the gig-economy. Although this form of work can be unpredictable, stressful and at times downright precarious, and...
Read MoreWe’re told which jobs will disappear fastest, what about new ones?
by Clive Reffell | Feb 13, 2018 | Crowdsourcing, Future of Work
The issue of future job losses due to the unstoppable march of artificial intelligence, automation and robotics is constantly in the media. In the UK, a January 2018 think tank report forecast that London will lose 900,000 jobs...
Read MoreNew Work Opportunities Created by Crowdsourcing and the Crowd Economy
by Clive Reffell | Dec 14, 2017 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Future of Work, Open Innovation
Anyone currently participating in crowdsourcing and disruptive crowd economy-related business sectors is only too aware of the growing media coverage being given to “the future of work.” Media editors are keen to raise their...
Read MoreCrowdfunding in Sweden
by Clive Reffell | Nov 30, 2017 | Citizen Engagement, Crowd Finance, Crowdfunding, Open Innovation
Crowdfunding in Sweden continues to grow and make headlines, from startups using donations-for-rewards crowdfunding as a sales channel for innovative products to quickly achieve high turnover, to the electric vehicle...
Read MoreCrowd Economy Work Opportunities in Sweden
by Clive Reffell | Oct 31, 2017 | Crowdsourcing, Future of Work
Recent CSW articles have looked at Sweden’s role as a global leader of innovation and crowdsourcing. It is also the host country for our conference next March, CSW Arctic // Europe 2018. We are all aware the pace of change...
Read MoreSweden is a Crowdsourcing Leader
by Clive Reffell | Oct 26, 2017 | Citizen Engagement, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation, Social Business
Sweden is recognised as being at the forefront of using crowdsourcing to develop both business and community social opportunities. Perhaps it’s an almost inevitable extension of central government policy to eradicate gender...
Read MoreWhy Changes of Scenery Are Important in the Gig-Economy
by Clive Reffell | Apr 25, 2017 | Collaborative Economy, Crowdsourcing, Future of Work, Social Business
Despite apparent greater control of a personal work/life balance open to remote workers and operators in the gig economy, these people often have higher levels of stress and sleep disruption. However, the flexibility offered by...
Read MoreSweden is the top country to invest in*
by Clive Reffell | Feb 14, 2017 | Crowdsourcing, CSW Conferences, News
After two decades of economic transformation, Sweden is top of Forbes’s 2016 list of countries that are the most inviting for capital investment.* Undoubtedly this is great news for Sweden, a country that is definitely punching...
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