Indonesia's Joko Widodo to Crowdsource Cabinet, Boosting People Participation in Government "An inclusive government" was the campaign mantra of Indonesia's Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on his way to winning to the country's presidential election results announced on July...
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Keep Calm and Trust In Crowds. Get Ready Europe!
The crowd knows best - well most times at least! The CSW team will show you more reasons to trust crowds and tap into your community through CSW Europe coming up October 14-16, 2014 in Copenhagen. Do you have a roadmap for unleashing the collective potential of your...
The Collaborative Economy Honeycomb: Interdependencies Create Robust Communities
Empowered people, connected via the Internet are a socially productive community at the center of the honeycomb graphic produced by Crowd Companies and sharing economy thought leader, Jeremiah Owyang (watch Jeremiah's keynote address and view his slides at CSW Global...
The Myth of the Lone Genius
A very interesting opinion piece on the NY Times by Joshua Wolf Shenk dwells on the myth of the lone genius. History has perennially celebrated lone geniuses like Einstein, Picasso, Shakespeare, King while barely acknowledging their creative partners and collaborators...
AirBnB is More Than Its Provocative Logo
AirBnb wants to emphasize the feeling of belonging through its new logo and web redesign with a powerful message - Belong Anywhere. The tech company that has been one of the pioneers of the tech+sharing economy space wants to underscore its message and mission to...
Ericsson Incorporates Crowdsourcing
Ericsson has launched a crowdsourcing component to its Networked Society City Index. Its aim is to measure the performance of cities from two perspectives: their information and communications tech maturity and their sustainable urban development; the Triple Bottom...
Workshop with the Founders of CSW, Crowdonomic & Pozible
Singapore entrepreneurs, start-ups, creatives, makers, and non-profits are invited to participate in this dynamic and interactive session, produced by Crowdsourcing Week to discover how crowdfunding can progress your company or cause. Join the founders of...
May Have Helped Surge Demand for Uber’s Services
Taxi drivers in the Capital region opposed Uber yesterday by staging an official protest and stalling traffic on major DC streets. They want the DC government to follow Virginia and make Uber cease and desist operations in the District. Uber's unique model uses a...
White House Maker Faire Announces #NationOfMakers, Features Local Motors
President Obama is celebrating America's makers today at the first-ever Maker Faire at the White House. The rise of the maker movement powered by the Internet and technologies like 3D printing, easy to use design software is reviving a whole new generation of doers...
Europe: A Complex Ecosystem for the Crowd Economy
Crowd Expedition's Martijn Arets talks to Epi Ludvik Nekaj, Founder & CEO of Crowdsourcing Week about the CSW Summit in Brussels and the collaborative movement in Europe and beyond. As we travel around the world, Crowdsourcing Week is adding to the conversation...
Roundtables Offered Decision Makers of the Collaborative Economy
Day 2, June 6, of the CSW Summit – Brussels focused on a series of four roundtable discussions aimed to provide in-depth insights into the collaborative economy. Implementing crowd innovation at an organizational level could seem overwhelming to many decision...
Crowdsourcing Week Brussels Summit #CSWBrussels (Day 1)
On Thursday June 5th, I attended Crowdsourcing Week’s Brussels summit (which ran until Friday June 6th included, but I didn’t stay until then). Organized in Vilvoorde, a couple of miles outside Brussels, the event gathered crowdsourcing professionals, academics,...
LIVE Crowdfunding Round At CSW Brussels with MyMicroInvest
Venture capital investment platform MyMicroInvest will present a live crowdfunding round at the CSW Summit in Brussels on June 5, 9:50 am Brussels local time and you can participate too -- from anywhere! The live crowdfunding session will present 2 innovative...
CSW Summit Brussels: A Primer on the Collaborative Economy for Decision Makers
Day 2, June 6, of the CSW Summit - Brussels will be dedicated to a series of four roundtable discussions aimed to provide in-depth insights into the collaborative economy. Everybody is talking about the collaborative economy but implementing crowd innovation at an...
Collaborative Economy in Belgium Needs a Regulatory Boost
Crowdsourcing is growing quickly in Europe and the number of organisations tapping into the crowd to create scalable solutions continues to raise steadily. Crowdsourcing is impacting various sectors from transportation to finance, to education and manufacturing. The...
What will Crowdfunding Look Like in 2020
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...
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,...
Crowd Economy Takes 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...