Tag: mobility
From Lecture Theatres to Living Rooms: the New Normal of Education
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...
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The Growing Gig-Economy Spurs Demand for Online Payment and Banking Services
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...
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We’re told which jobs will disappear fastest, what about new ones?
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...
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New Work Opportunities Created by Crowdsourcing and the Crowd Economy
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...
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Crowdfunding in Sweden
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...
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Crowd Economy Work Opportunities in Sweden
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...
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Sweden is a Crowdsourcing Leader
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...
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Why Changes of Scenery Are Important in the Gig-Economy
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...
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Sweden is the top country to invest in*
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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Finding Ways to Live and Work Smarter: CSW Global 2016 Recap, Day 3
This year our global conference is in London, a truly iconic, vibrant, global city. And one that’s creaking at some of the seams of its infrastructure. This morning my tube was delayed on its journey to ease over-crowding at its...
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