COVID-19 is going to be a generation’s shared memory, with its disruptive and generally negative effects. The lockdowns are increasing the size of the gig-economy workforce as some furloughed workers transition to a temporary income from any of the most in-demand jobs...
While the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked an immediate need for online education, it has also triggered the unbundling of the entire education industry. This, coupled with learner demands for flexible formats, will mean that the digital transformation that we’ve all...
Attendees at our first Virtual Crowd Summit experienced an international panel of speakers discussing and sharing how crowdsourcing-led techniques and models can help organisations. Help them to not only face up to the economic and operational implications of the...
Rewards crowdfunding matters because of the part it is playing in moving us from where we are today, to where we need to go. The world is facing unprecedented challenges - environmental, economic, and social. One only needs to turn on the news to see the vast array of...
The threat of cyber-attacks has risen in the current COVID-19 pandemic, with many company employees working remotely and outside centralised company security systems. Now even small companies need access to experts in cybersecurity and penetration testing on an urgent...
Here is a snapshot of how various forms of crowdfunding are being used around the world to help tackle the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Donations There is phenomenal UK public support for Special Forces veteran Captain Tom Moore, who is 99. He is walking with...
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 any time the latter are interpreting the...
The extreme conditions of the Corona crisis lay bare the good, the bad and the ugly. As interesting as it was to observe how countries fight the same virus in different ways, it is equally fascinating to witness a strong mobilization of crowds from within the general...
While governments and global pharmaceutical corporations search for an ultimate long-term solution, a life-saving vaccine, response to the COVID-19 has thrown up many near-term challenges. Prize challenges communicated through mass digital connectivity have given a...
Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds, the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business...
History shows that crowdsourcing is not new. Today, a proliferation of open innovation platforms encourages skilled experts throughout the world to compete for cash and status by offering solutions to an array of prize challenges, whether as individuals or as...
The global threat of COVID-19 has crippled the travel and tourism industries, tested the world’s capacity to respond to massive and rapidly growing healthcare challenges, and forced many other industries to adapt to the times lest they sink under the weight of “the...
It is fascinating to see how different leaders choose to deal with a crisis like the coronavirus outbreak. Let's compare three approaches: the “Populists,” the “Believers” and the “Proactives.” The Populists Solutions put forward by populist leaders who mobilised “the...
"An open innovation platform shares human brains and ingenuity like Airbnb shares spare accommodation." These are the words of Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of the HeroX innovation platform. There is growing recognition among organization leaders that...
More and more organizations are recognizing the benefits of open innovation challenges as a means to tap in to the collective wisdom of many people outside of their own employees or other regular sources. Solutions can be surprisingly different from people outside of...
A fundamental tenet of the sharing economy is to use resources more efficiently. At a time when all of us as individuals are increasingly asked to consider our use of air travel, single-use plastic products, and turning down room temperatures, the construction...
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 is being asked to stay indoors. Only...
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 to human analysts, and can better keep...
Debates on the benefits of and threats from artificial intelligence are moving on. Projections of mass unemployment due to the loss of routine work are becoming more balanced by realisations that maybe 65% of children in primary school today are going to have jobs...
This is our theme for Crowdsourcing Week in 2020: BOLD // Crowd 2.0 powered by AI and Machine Learning. It’s where crowdsourcing takes a major transformative step rather than a series of incremental ones. At the same time as recognizing crowdsourcing as a business...
With sad regret I have recently seen the passing of two people who left an indelible mark both on the world of innovation and on me personally. Academic, business leader, author and “management guru” Professor Clayton Christensen, and serial entrepreneur Leila Janah,...
I learned recently that architects are involved in only 2% of the newly constructed built environment in the UK. A week later, a report released based on a housing design audit for England that had examined over 140 housing developments built since 2007 revealed that...
Nine years ago, I summed up 2010 as “the year that crowdsourced transcription finally caught on.” This seems like a good time to review the big developments in the field over the decade that 2010 launched. What the field looked like in 2010 It’s interesting to look...
A lot of new authors now are choosing to finance their e-book and cover their expenses throughout the writing process thanks to a crowdfunding campaign. You might be wishing you could write full-time but you couldn’t leave the stability of a paying job. The good news...