Government

Crowdsourcing for Smart Cities

Innovation challenges are finding their place in healthcare, data science, renewable energy and more! You’ve likely heard of smart homes and other ‘s…

Arts & Design

Expert Level: Crowdsourcing 6 Wins with Hugo Shelley

Hugo Shelley lives in the world of problem solving. With six HeroX challenge wins under his belt, Hugo's mission is to find solutions to big problems, using new technology, design, and collaborative thinking.

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HeroX Tips: Your Crowdsourcing Timeline

Why is the challenge timeline important in crowdsourcing, when is it best to launch a challenge, what are the milestones that determine how long the project should run. All that and more tips and tricks that will help you launch a great crowdsourcing project or challenge, read inside.

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Arts & Design

Solver Feature: Georgia Mihalcea

Who: Georgia Mihalcea - What: Host & Producer at "We Are Solvers" - Hero of: Patterns For Success (Culture Segment) - Where: Bucharest, Romania

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Education

5 Lessons from the Most Successful Crowdsourcing Project of All Time

We all know crowdsourcing works - but rarely does it work so well as was the case with Space Poop. So what made it different? HeroX took a long look at this challenge. What we learned might just help other crowdsourcing projects enjoy a little bit of that same “magic.”

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GoFly Prize

Design and build a safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying device capable of flying 20 miles while carrying a single person.

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The Future of Business is not 9 to 5

There are many strategies, tools and resources that exist to help organizations today. You may be asking yourself, “then why should I care about crow…

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HeroX Tips: Formulating Your Prize

Determining the award for your crowdsourcing project can be a bit overwhelming! Thankfully, HeroX is here to help! First, start by estimating how muc…

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HeroX Tips: Your Crowdsourcing Timeline

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Government

Crowdsourcing for Smart Cities

Innovation challenges are finding their place in healthcare, data science, renewable energy and more! You’ve likely heard of smart homes and other ‘s…

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Engineering

Can Steel Structures Self-Heal? Help Stop Corrosion, win $60,000

In order to address rising maintenance costs and to advance the state of the art for corrosion control, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), is sponsoring this two-phase Rust Busters Challenge.

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