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UK Equity Crowdfunding Platform Backs Startups in India

UK Equity Crowdfunding Platform Backs Startups in India

Our Head of Content, Clive Reffell, caught up with the co-founder and director of CrowdInvest, Nakul Garg. It is a new cross-border equity crowdfunding platform that will begin trading in the UK in Q4 2022. Nakul is creating a win-win: through Crowdinvest, Indian tech...

The Fundamentals of Farmland Investing

The Fundamentals of Farmland Investing

In the early 2000's, a sudden realization that the world would need to feed a rapidly expanding population led several US institutional investors to create investment vehicles in farmland. In the early 2010s, famous funds like the Soros Fund Management further...

Development of Prize Challenges for Crowdsourcing in the Metaverse

Development of Prize Challenges for Crowdsourcing in the Metaverse

The use of AR/VR technology in online gaming has given more people than any other experiences an idea of being in the metaverse. It’s an immersive 3D world of interaction, taking place in any designated or chosen location. AR and VR tech is already transforming...

Outsourcing Customer Support to Crowdsourced Brand Advocates

Outsourcing Customer Support to Crowdsourced Brand Advocates

Customer communications can sometimes make or break a brand. Good customer support helps retain prime customers, it can change the opinions of people who complain, it can up-sell to boost revenue, and provide feedback for the rest of an organization to better...

Decentralization and Deglobalization

Decentralization and Deglobalization

Crowdsourcing Week’s Theme of 2022 I believe 2022 will be a pivotal year for how we live and work, and for many aspects of the crowd economy. Decentralization and deglobalization deliver a more even distribution of power in society, and it’s our theme in 2022. There...

A #1 Business Model of the Decade: the Crowd Economy

A #1 Business Model of the Decade: the Crowd Economy

Almost two years ago Peter Diamandis, the entrepreneur perhaps best known for being founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, wrote his prediction of seven business models that will capture and dominate the 2020s. At the top of his list was the Crowd Economy....

Top 5 Crowd Testing Platforms

Top 5 Crowd Testing Platforms

To succeed in today's global market and create positive brand awareness there is an increasing need for organizations to improve user experience of their websites, apps and other software. Helping companies to launch their websites and mobile apps to the public...

Top 5 Crowdsourced Data Annotation Solutions

Top 5 Crowdsourced Data Annotation Solutions

Robots, drones or vehicles need artificial intelligence based on reliable data to achieve high levels of dependable autonomy. Medical service providers and space exploration need mass volumes of data analysed and assessed to draw correct conclusions from future data....

Hacker On-Demand

Hacker On-Demand

Cybersecurity is a fast growing sector, expected to be worth over $345 billion by 2026. With higher levels of remote working among office workers, hackers have been keen to exploit the relatively low security of residential internet connections as entry routes to...

Crowd-based Trends in Innovation for Education

Crowd-based Trends in Innovation for Education

Education is going through a massive transition. A long-established structure, largely unchanged since the 19th century, has been forced to finally grasp 21st century technology, plus its attitudes and behaviours, at a comparative overnight pace. Different factors,...

The Important Role of Crowdfunding for Agriculture

The Important Role of Crowdfunding for Agriculture

The world’s population is expected to have grown by over a third from 2009 to 2050, an additional 2.3 billion people. To feed this number of people, food production will have to increase by around 70% from the 2005/07 levels (source: The World Bank). Meeting this...

How to 10X R&D Using Connected Innovation Intelligence

How to 10X R&D Using Connected Innovation Intelligence

At Crowdsourcing Week we champion the benefits of open innovation as a means to accelerate the development of breakthroughs, solutions and inventions. A growing number of organisations utilise open innovation platforms to go beyond in-house R&D teams, who work in...

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are the Future

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are the Future

DAOs, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, provide a flat, secure and democratic structure for people to collaborate towards agreed aims. Think of them as computer-driven businesses without fatcat bosses, where the aims and codes of conduct are embedded in...

Crowdsourcing Advertising Content in a Changing Industry

Crowdsourcing Advertising Content in a Changing Industry

The concept of crowdsourcing remains sometimes misunderstood, and can still be confused by non-users with outsourcing. Before I launched Crowdsourcing Week in 2012 I ran a virtual advertising agency in New York City, and so I feel perfectly well qualified to talk...

What is Open Innovation?

What is Open Innovation?

It’s possible to find different answers to this question of ‘What is open innovation?’ Though the majority agree it is a process that goes beyond an organization’s own R&D resources and enlists the support of outside help for innovation ideas to resolve...

The Crowdsourced World of Freelancing and Remote Working in 2025

The Crowdsourced World of Freelancing and Remote Working in 2025

Freelance jobs and the remote working future of work have already arrived for a large number of the online white-collar workforce. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report published in October 2020, 84% of employers are set to rapidly digitalize...