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Modern innovation platforms welcome collective creativity: they set-up appropriate sensors to collect social conversation, allowing an ongoing exchange, and tools to enable co-design:...
Ross Dawson lists the following platforms and tools or examples that can be highly utilized for one's business: 1. Distributed innovation platforms (Innovation Exchange, Ideaken, Nine...
Reasons from the failure of crowdsourcing-platform of CrowdSpirit. *CrowdSpirit engagement platforms produced an abundance of ideas but no real co-creation processes. *Lacking of community...
Distributed Knowledge is the most discussed type of crowdsourcing, with the category’s top 15 platforms garnering nearly nine million social media mentions during the examined one-year timeframe. There’s a reason, after all, that the cocktail party definition of crowdsourcing is “Wikipedia, for everything.” Speaking of the community-authored encyclopedia, Wikipedia ranks highest in “absolute buzz” among Distributed Knowledge sites, racking up 2,216,124 total mentions. Social news aggregator Digg comes in a close second with 2,118,646 mentions, followed by social news site Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” which garnered 1,747,223 mentions. Discovery engine StumbleUpon and TomTom, a GPS navigation company that crowdsources map info, round out the top five with 1,247,871 and 476,283 mentions respectively.
Last week Transparency Life Sciences launched as the world’s first drug development company that is based on Open Innovation. Crowdsourcing.org takes a look at Open Innovation in the scientific community to see how this could work in the world of medicine.
So far we've looked at how the crowd feels about the biggest Crowdfunding, Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity and Distributed Knowledge sites. Now, this week we're going to wrap up our series with a look at the last category in the Crowdsourcing taxonomy--Open Innovation.
Sometimes you even have to be innovative when it comes to supporting innovation. That's what we found so inspiring about a soon-to-launch Citizen Science project tentatively code-named "Germinator", another brainchild stemming from one the hubs of the crowdsourcing world, sunny San Diego, CA. This new distributed knowledge platform will be looking to create a crowd of backyard gardeners that it says will "revolutionize what we eat, how we eat and what we mean by horticulture", all through crowdsourcing!
Crowdsourcing and distributed reporting are two great tools news organizations can use to scale and are part of the solution. This means media organizations should think of themselves not only as...
Frank Piller of MIT's Design Lab reviews the recent European Open Innovation Summit, where he was also a presenter. Piller discusses open innovation advances from Lego, Nokia and others.
Open innovation intermediaries are becoming increasingly mature and specific in the services they offer. I spoke with a handful of open innovation leaders and found the path to expansion and further maturity lies in the potential of collaboration and building like-minded and motivated communities of problem solvers.
The MCPC conference series started out in 2001 as a bi-annual conference devoted to mass customization & personalization. The content has broadened in recent years, including also customer co-creation, user innovation, and other strategies of customer-driven value creation (hence, MCPC = Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation"). In 2011, the conference will bridge MCPC with a topic that has driven and inspired the field since several years: open innovation.
Even the best ideas are rarely perfected alone, and technology continues to offer ways of bringing creative minds together. Focusing on what it calls “social ideation”, Ahhha is a brand-new crowdsourcing platform that aims to help innovators bring their ideas to life.
The crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industry is picking up momentum at an exceptional rate. Validity of the models involved is now grounded in the ever-increasing size of the participatory crowd, the scale of the capital networks involved, and the unique value delivered to customers, communities, and investors alike. Astute expansion-stage venture firms are now decisively backing and further fuelling explosive high-growth in crowd-driven companies. With more than $280 million invested in 35 different crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms during 2011 — an average investment of $8 million per funding round — it is clear that the industry’s probationary period is over.
Silicon Valley tech company CrowdFlower was one of a group of organisations, including the Thomson Reuters Foundation, that helped survivors of the Haiti quake get help via text message. Some...
Open innovation is rapidly changing the way organizations tackle tough problems. Even the United States government loves open innovation, using its Challenge.gov platform to monitor pollution, improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and crowdsource a “next-generation” combat vehicle, among other initiatives.
ChallengePost, which runs Challenge.gov for the federal government in addition to software competitions for private companies, firmly believes that competition breeds innovation. We spoke with Brian Koles, business development manager at ChallengePost, who explained the myriad benefits of open innovation.
Researchers identified several issues that should be kept in mind when organizing a crowdfunding campaign: A crowdfunding platform is a very powerful tool to handle multiple investors, but the...
The Spark Project is a crowdfunding community for like-minded Filipinos to support creative, innovative, and passion-driven projects. Although existing forms of funding like venture capitalists,...
Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Leila Janah, CEO of Samasource, about the company’s vision and business model. Samasource offers a “private crowd” as a model that fits between traditional outsourcing and crowdsourcing; the former providing advantages delivered through the organization of qualified labor and the latter delivering the greatest labor arbitrage advantage. Samasource employs a dedicated workforce, managed off-shore by trained service partners that provide quality control in designated work centers. Janah describes Samasource as “a distributive work company that employs crowdsourcing principles.”
There are a myriad of possibilities in the search for crowdsourcing milestones that announced its advent and its adoption as a model for online production, problem solving and for organizing for collective action: Commercial applications, advertising campaigns that succeed or backfire, funding for entrepreneurial ventures. This list of one dozen focuses on the pinnacles that demonstrate crowdsourcing’s highest potential: For public good, scientific research and technological innovation.
Each of these events involves a seminal moment when crowdsourcing came into greater public awareness being driven from calls to action that resulted in ever increasing numbers of individuals working together in a manner that has raised our collective consciousness.
We have selected our landmark crowdsourcing events based on criteria that make them notable because of their scale, their impact and the extent of their outreach to a wider audience both demographically and geographically. See if you agree with our choices!
SoundCloud is an audio platform that enables anyone to upload, record, promote and share their originally-created sounds across the internet, in a simple, accessible and feature-rich way. Their...
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
