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How Crowdsourcing is Enhancing the Healthcare Sector

IdeaScale

In 2013, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation took a step that many found surprising: creating a prize and asking the world to reengineer the condom. But little noted was that Gates was pioneering crowdsourcing in healthcare … and that it worked. Crowdsourcing only works if it catches the attention of a crowd, after all.

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U.S. Army Announces New Digital Transformation Strategy

IdeaScale

According to the Army, this involves the creation of “a digitally-enabled, data-driven Army propelled by digital transformation.” Those standards will include “zero trust” cybersecurity measures to counteract attempts to invade their systems and to protect data. Modernization and Readiness.

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Avoid the Iridium Moment

Destination Innovation

Nokia believed that the data from Navteq’s traffic sensors would allow it to lead in mobile mapping and traffic information. They crowdsourced location data from the GPS sensors on people’s mobile phones in order to capture traffic information. in 2013 it had 50 million users – far more ‘traffic sensors’ than Nokia could match.

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Open Innovation Success Stories in the Car Industry

IdeaConnection

In 2013, the motor giant Citroen built the UK’s first crowdsourced car. An Apps for Vehicles challenge organized by the US government allowed participants to innovate by taking advantage of a slew of vehicle-generated data.

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Wazoku Secures New Funding from Barclays

Wazoku

Crowdsourcing specialist Wazoku secures new funding from Barclays to support further development. Wazoku a UK crowdsourcing company and leading provider of collaborative innovation software, has received new venture debt finance from Barclays of £680,000. Wazoku is a crowdsourcing company headquartered in London. About Wazoku.

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How hackathons can help you get started with blockchain

hackerearth

It doesn’t matter if you are talking about products, services, technology, culture, or data; everything revolves around delivering value to customers and thwarting competitors. Crowdsourcing ideas from developers could be the only way for now to find financial solutions using this potentially disruptive technology.

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Everything you need to know about innovation management software

hackerearth

A 2013 Accenture study revealed some interesting findings: Companies which have formal innovation management systems, compared to those that have not, are almost twice as likely to say they were very satisfied with their initial idea generation abilities (43% vs. 24%). Crowdsourcing algorithms (e.g. Aid strategic decision making.