smart cities Archives - Crowdsourcing Week

Recap of CSW Summit Arctic Circle 2017

by Clive Reffell | Mar 23, 2017 |

What an amazing experience! Let’s remind ourselves why we chose Sweden. In the weeks prior to CSW Summit Arctic Circle on March 15-19 we looked at some of the business sectors where Swedish ingenuity and entrepreneurship...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – November 18

by Ejona Blyta | Nov 18, 2016 |

Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – ‘Imagine Boston 2030’ crowdsourcing the city’s future; crowdsourcing ideas for improving railways; crowdsourcing new prediction tool for better prognosis...

Smart Cities, Sharing Economy and Mobility at CSW Europe 2016

by Clive Reffell | Oct 12, 2016 |

Big data is a market currently estimated to be worth around $40bn and projected to reach $66.8bn by 2021, according to Ben Rossi in Information Age. And up to October 2016 there have been 22,800 questions posted on Quora related...

Decentralized energy is the future – and it’s closer than you think (part two)

by Epi Ludvik Nekaj | Oct 11, 2016 |

In my last post I looked at some of the technologies that are ushering in the decentralized energy revolution, such as cheap solar power, home batteries and the blockchain. But there’s another type of battery that could also...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 30

by Ejona Blyta | Sep 30, 2016 |

Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – the crowd-powered robot painting like da Vinci; saving Twitter through equity crowdfunding; Google Translate and Maps turning to crowdsourcing and more...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 9

by Ejona Blyta | Sep 9, 2016 |

Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – crowdsourcing a documentary on The Beatles; crowdfunding future cities; global crowdsourcing contest to predict epileptic seizures and more …...

How co-creation is shaping the future of cities

by Epi Ludvik Nekaj | Aug 18, 2016 |

As the famous urban activist Jane Jacobs once wrote, “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” It’s a truth that lies at the...

Countdown to Crowdsourcing Week’s first African Summit on June 24

by Clive Reffell | Jun 14, 2016 |

The crowd economy is set to take Africa by storm, and CSW Summit Johannesburg on the second day of Innolive 2016 on June 24 will focus on collaborative innovation with the overall theme of “The Sharing Economy – Unlocking...

CSW Summit Johannesburg Throws a Spotlight on Crowdsourcing and the Crowd Economy

by Clive Reffell | May 17, 2016 |

We are very excited to be coming in June for our first event in Africa. Crowdsourcing Week is a global platform uniting thought leadership on the crowd economy and crowdsourcing. In collaboration with Innocentrix, an innovation...

Countdown to Iran’s First Crowdsourcing Conference, CSW Summit Tehran, on 20 May

by Clive Reffell | May 16, 2016 |

Crowdsourcing is a global practice, and we are excited to bring Iran’s first action-packed crowdsourcing summit to Tehran and showcase leading edge innovations in the crowd economy to an audience hungry for encouragement and...