Archive for 2012
What is crowdsourcing and crowdfunding?
A short animated film by Crowdsourcing.org, narrated by Crowdsourcing.org’s Founder, Carl Esposti, describing the four different ways Crowdsourcing works and the five different categories of things you can do with crowdsourcing. It shows how: to tap the power of the crowd for creative projects (Crowd Creativity), to collect and organize knowledge (Distributed Knowledge), to use…
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WHAT IS INCLUSIVE BUSINESS ?: World Bank´s definition and resources.
Inclusive business is a private sector approach to providing goods, services, and livelihoods on a commercially viable basis, either at scale or scalable, to people at the base of the pyramid by making them part of the value chain of companies’ core business as suppliers, distributors, retailers, or customers. Inclusive businesses expand access to goods,…
Read MoreBusinesses using Crowdsourcing to promote Social Innovation
Last April, Unilever hosted its ‘Sustainable Living Lab,’ a 24-hour, global social innovation online event aiming to generate new ideas across four key areas: – sustainable sourcing, production, distribution and consumer behaviour change. Recently, the world has witnessed a wave of businesses pioneering new ways of putting into practice the concept of ‘a problem shared can be…
Read MoreThe power of vulnerability. TED talk by Brené Brown
This weekend a friend mentioned this TED Talk by Brené Brown. It has deeply stirred me and I want to share it with you. It touches upon the following questions: How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness?…
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