research Archives - Crowdsourcing Week

How Crowdsourcing Solved the Riddle of a Twister

Posted by Clive Reffell | Jul 7, 2020 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing | 0

A Scientific Analysis of Choosing the Right Words for Crowdfunding Success

by Nuno Arroteia | Apr 20, 2020 | Crowdfunding

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...

Using Crowdsourcing to Combat Coronavirus

by Clive Reffell | Mar 10, 2020 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing

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...

Crowdsourcing Citizen Scientists to Feed Scientific Developments

by Clive Reffell | Feb 25, 2020 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration

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...

Crowdsourcing to Improve Food Production and Recycle Surplus

by Clive Reffell | Dec 13, 2019 | Crowdsourcing

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...

The Next Step in Business Audio? Ask the Crowd!

by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey | Aug 8, 2019 | cocreation, Crowdsourcing

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...

Harnessing AI to Crowdsource the Diagnosis of Incurable Diseases

by Clive Reffell | Jul 31, 2019 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing

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...

Helping Out Your Fellow Humans

by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey | Jul 19, 2019 | cocreation, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration

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...

Fielding Open Innovation Challenges in Agri-tech

by Clive Reffell | Jul 15, 2019 | Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

As the population grows at an ever faster and faster rate, transforming how the world feeds itself is going to be a necessity. Even though up to a third of the food currently produced goes to waste, incremental improvements to...

How Crowdsourcing Built The World’s #1 Wine Brand

by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey | Jul 2, 2019 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

Hi! We are Michael and Bonnie, the founders of the world’s largest wine brand. Did you know that we used crowdsourcing to build Barefoot Wine? Sure, it wasn’t called “Crowdsourcing” back then, but it was the secret to our...

HeroX: the Social Network of Prize Challenges

by Clive Reffell | Jul 2, 2019 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Online Communities

Finding the right talent to solve your problem can be difficult. Crowdsourcing helps you access a global pool of on-demand talent, helping to make innovation efforts less expensive, easier to manage and of better quality through...