14th June 2023 – The International Rescue Committee (IRC), a global humanitarian organization that helps people affected by conflict and disaster, has launched a new Challenge to capture new ideas to increase comfort and safety in women’s toilets in refugee camps. To learn more about the IRC’s mission and about the Challenges, visit the IRC Showcase on the new Wazoku Crowd website.
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5th June 2023 – The International Rescue Committee (IRC), a global humanitarian organization that helps people affected by conflict and disaster, will soon launch two crowdsourcing campaigns to increase comfort and safety in women’s toilets in refugee camps and last-mile medicine delivery in Sierra Leone. These open innovation Challenges are the first of a series planned for the coming years.
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From June 2023, you’ll notice some changes to the Wazoku Crowd Challenge Center. We’re introducing Prize Challenges and Scouting Challenges, changing our Challenge Specific Agreements into Challenge Agreements, and making other user journey improvements where you will have the opportunity to solve problems directly in Communities with the potential for access to the Seeker.
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The Wazoku Crowd has spent twenty years at the forefront of open innovation. During this time, it’s enjoyed a couple of different homes – including its previous incarnation as InnoCentive – and connected businesses around the world to Solvers for their problems. Today, we announce its new home. Welcome to the future of the Wazoku Crowd!
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To power our world for today and tomorrow, it’s important to innovate the way we deal with energy. While global pressures and demand cause price rises for consumers and tough questions for operators, we’ve collated the latest from the experts on innovation in energy for 2023.
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Innovation never stands still, and neither does our product. In these ‘Product Roadmap’ blogs, we provide updates, insights, and previews into what is coming up with the Wazoku platform. Building on the things discussed in our biannual Product Roadmap Webinars, here we go into depth about both new features and upgrades to existing capabilities.
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The strengths of the innovations you develop largely depend on the quality of the questions you ask. Considering that 85% of organizations confess to being bad at problem diagnosis, there’s a lot riding on getting your Challenge design ‘just right’. In this blog, we’ll share some key tips on three elements of Challenge design, and how to ensure you find the sweet spot for each.
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Healthcare is unrecognizable today compared to even 10 years ago. In order to keep up with the latest developments, trends, and patterns in the industry, we’ve detailed the top innovations and expert predictions for Health, Pharma, and Life Sciences in 2023.
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In November 2020, Wazoku launched a series of Challenges with Habitat for Humanity, facilitated by SeaFreight Labs. In Kenya, Mexico, India, and the Philippines, the Wazoku Crowd provided solutions to overcome different humanitarian and housing problems. Read more about their success in our Habitat for Humanity report!
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In this blog, we look at a Challenge that aims to find more effective ways for local governments to use public data to inform decision-making. To register for this Challenge, click here!
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February 4th is World Cancer Awareness Day. It’s a day where people come together to celebrate the strides made in fighting the disease and to raise awareness of the importance of the cause. An estimated 10 million people die from cancer every year and the disease is the second leading cause of death worldwide. However, every day, discoveries are made that will help prevent these deaths and contributing to these breakthroughs are a whole host of crowdsourcing initiatives.
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‘Inclusive Innovation’ has become a hot topic of late. With Innovate UK announcing £2.5m in funding for businesses pioneering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), it’s a subject everyone should be taking seriously. DEI strategies are no longer ‘nice-to-haves’, but essential to building a sustainable business.
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