Tag: research
How Crowdsourcing Helps Manufacturers Innovate
The novelty of using crowdsourcing for innovation is not a new one. In fact, a few years back, one of Crowdsourcing Week’s own featured writers, Marcus Barber, talked about how the future of manufacturing was upon us, and...
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Citizen Scientists Continue to Boost Valuable Ecological Research
A wide range of ecological projects based on crowdsourced Citizen Science models are now being undertaken around the world, at local, national and international scales. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, established in 1976,...
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How Crowdsourcing Solved the Riddle of a Twister
For most of his life, Anton Seimon has been fascinated by the dynamics and formation of some of the strongest forces on Earth – tornadoes. Yet the scientific community did not know for sure whether tornadoes formed from the sky...
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A Scientific Analysis of Choosing the Right Words for Crowdfunding Success
Crowdfunding is by no means easy: most projects fail. Effective communication of crowdfunding opportunities presents unique information challenges for entrepreneurs who must convince funders to support their project, while at...
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Using Crowdsourcing to Combat Coronavirus
To combat spread of the coronavirus, this week the Italian Government announced a lockdown of an area in northern Italy that is home to 16 million residents. That has very quickly been extended and the entire population of Italy...
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Crowdsourcing Citizen Scientists to Feed Scientific Developments
AI technology is increasingly used to open up new horizons for scientists and researchers. It enables analysis of masses of data much faster than humans can manage, identifies deep trends and patterns that could be indiscernible...
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Crowdsourcing to Improve Food Production and Recycle Surplus
Projections show that feeding an estimated world population of 9.1 billion people in 2050 will require raising overall food production by some 70% from 2005/07 levels, reported the High Level Expert Forum – How to Feed the World...
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The Next Step in Business Audio? Ask the Crowd!
Story as Communication, From Caveman to Walkman When humans listen to a story something amazing happens. Each individual in a crowd reaches into their own personal memories to create and complete the scenes in which the action...
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Harnessing AI to Crowdsource the Diagnosis of Incurable Diseases
We are now quite used to seeing the disruption that’s taking place in many marketplaces due to the combination of new technology and mass connectivity in the hands of visionary startups, unencumbered by the ‘rules’ of...
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Helping Out Your Fellow Humans
PARTICIPATION = SATISFACTION In 1996 Jerry Maguire, an aspiring sports agent, repeated a four word request to his first and only client: “Help me help you!” And you know where that got him. The feedback gave him the...
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