From the editor: Paul Niederer, one of the top 10 global experts on crowdfunding throws light on how crowdfunding will evolve by 2020. Reposted from Paul's blog. Looking 6 years into the future, what can we expect crowdfunding to be in 2020. Firstly, the word...
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CSW Europe 2014 Coming to Copenhagen October 14-16
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2014 Looks to Highlight Organizational Transformations Through The Crowd Economy Singapore / Copenhagen / New York (May 20, 2014) – Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) announces its first European flagship conference in Copenhagen...
Four Ways 3D Printing is Changing Business Paradigms
Last week, a 3D printer that prints makeup was launched at TechCrunch's Disrupt NY Stage, where founder Grace Choi called the bluff on premium make up brands that sold make-up in exclusive colors with a high-price markup. Choi has invented a desktop printer, Mink,...
The Crowd Economy to Take Center Stage at CSW Summit Brussels
Focusing on customer-led innovation, the two-day CSW Summit Brussels conference on June 5 & 6 will connect an expanding crowdsourcing community in Belgium to European and global innovators in crowdsourcing and open innovation. Crowd participation is transforming...
Call for Volunteers at CSW Summit Brussels
Are you a student or startup who wants to attend the Crowdsourcing Week Summit in Brussels? Here are two special ways to get involved. In less than four weeks, Brussels will welcome the first-ever event to unite the crowdsourcing community in Belgium. Focusing on...
Life Interrupted: My CSW Global Story by Mark Philpott
Mark Philpott, Corporate leader turned social entrepreneur and homeless man by choice, gave a talk at CSWGlobal14 that was a revelation. This post first appeared on his blog where he talks about his experiences at CSW Global in Singapore. I have just spent some time...
Infographic: Crowdsourcing Week Global 2014 by the Numbers
Wondering what you missed at CSW Global 2014, or were you there and want to relive the best moments? Check out the many amazing stats in the CSW Global 2014 Infographic (tweet this). A big THANK YOU to the speakers, delegates and volunteers who all contributed to a...
Life Interrupted: My CSW Global Story by Nick NM Yap
Nick NM Yap, the CEO of ROCKI, serial entrepreneur and a veteran of two successful Kickstarter projects (for ROCKI and the Omate Smartwatch) recounts his CSWGlobal14 experiences. Nick simply is a rockstar. Follow him @addlikefollow. Crowdsourcing Week Global, when I...
MIT Bitcoin Club To Create An Ecosystem for Digital Currencies on Campus
Got $100 in Bitcoins? How will you use it? MIT's Bitcoin Club has a plan - to distribute the $100 in Bitcoins to every undergraduate on campus this Fall and press the "play" button. They hope to follow and study how students use the digital currency on campus, while...
#myNYPD Fail: When Crowds Hurt Your Outreach
The NYPD, on Tuesday, reached out to citizens and encouraged them to share pictures with department officers via Twitter using the hashtag #myNYPD. Though there were many who shared positive pictures of police officers who put their life on the line for community...
And that’s a WRAP – CSW Global’14 Has Participants Rooting for the Crowd Economy
What a week it has been! We have come to the end of an amazing week in Singapore that brought together the global community of innovators in the crowd economy and it truly has been exhilarating to listen to inspiring work that is changing the paradigm and disruption...
CTO, Crowdsourcing Week: How Does That Title Sound to You?
As you may know, I founded Crowdsourcing Week about 18 months ago and since then we have produced 5 one-day summits in Europe and North America and 2 week-long conferences in Asia. At the closing of our second flagship CSW Global conference in Singapore in April...
StarHub Announces Crowdtivate at CSW Global’14, will Crowdfund Asia’s Entrepreneurs
StarHub, Singapore's telco giant announced its crowdfunding platform Crowdtivate, today, live at Crowdsourcing Week Global (CSW),' 14 in Singapore. Crowdtivate will be the first telco backed crowd platform to serve Asia's entrepreneurs, and future movers &...
CSW Global 2014 is Off to an Energetic Start
And its off to a great start! Crowdsourcing Week kicked off its second week-long conference in Singapore at the beautiful Genexis theatre at Fusionopolis, Monday night. Conference attendees, collaborators and VIP's enjoyed a special night, celebrating the second year,...
April 11: Join us at CSW 2014 After Party at JFDI
This Friday, April 11th JDFI.Asia is hosting an after-party in honor of the 2nd edition of Crowdsourcing Week, a week-long showing in Singapore with sessions from over 50 speakers from all over the world. The party will take place after CSW's interactive Crowdfunding...
Crowdsourcing Week Summit – Brussels 2014 to Focus on Customer-Led Innovation Within Organisations
via Press release Singapore / Brussels / New York (April 7, 2014) - Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) announces the CSW Summit in Brussels on June 5-6, 2014, the first in a series of global summits planned for 2014. The two-day summit with BNP Paribas Fortis as a...
Crowdsourcing Week Picks Winners of Animated Signature Video Contest on Talenthouse
Last month, Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) in partnership with Talenthouse India launched a contest to create an animated signature video that would bring out the mission and goals of Crowdsourcing Week. We are thrilled to find a winner + 2 runner up entries from 25 entries...
StarHub Joins Crowdsourcing Week as Global Partner in Singapore for 2014 Conference
Via press release Crowdsourcing Week (CSW), the global conference dedicated towards providing the crowdsourcing ecosystem with platforms and content, has announced StarHub as its official telco partner for Crowdsourcing Week Global 2014. As official telco,...
The Future is Coming to Singapore – 5 Sessions to Watch Out For at CSW Global’14
The Future is coming -- in less than 7 days to Crowdsourcing Week in Singapore from April 7-11. Are you ready to join us? 50+ sessions are planned through the week with more than 40 open-internet pioneers, enterprise leaders, and innovators who understand the...
Ollie Halimatussadiah: Crowdsourcing Has Been Integral to Asian Culture
What are some of the crowd economy opportunities in Indonesia? Indonesia has been engaging in crowdsourcing for some time. What are the challenges and opportunities of embracing digital collaboration in this region? Techpreneur Ollie Halimatussadiah discusses in the...
Another Way of Rewarding the Crowd: Gamification
Relationship between crowdsourcing and gamification One of the key elements in a crowdsourcing initiative of any kind is the motivation of the crowd. It's true that the crowdsourcing initiative will need a large enough crowd, that a clearly defined task must be...
Arun Mehra: Brands Have Faith in their Crowd to Deliver Authentic Brand Identities
Registered attendees for Crowdsourcing Week Global ’14 already represent over 20 countries across 5 continents so far. To give you a little taste of what to expect at the conference, we are bringing a new ‘Speaker Spotlight’ series that showcases speakers’ work and...
Crowdsourcing: A Shift in Talent Acquisition
Business enterprise nowadays pushes competition by maximizing the use of technology such as the “cloud”. The concept of the “cloud” has been popular due to the advent of readily available software programs through the use of the Internet. These cloud applications...
We have Winners! Top Crowdsourced Designs for CSW Global 2014 Announced
We just concluded our crowdsourced poster contest on 99designs; inviting designers to contribute a poster featuring an inspiring quote related to collaboration and innovation. After crowdsourcing a line of amazing Crowdsourcing Week t-shirts from 99designs for last...