Andrew Karpie's Blog

Crowdsourcing, Crowdopolis, and Enterprise Adoption

In mid-July, I find myself in the middle of the subject of “crowdsourcing.” The first SIA overview report on the third Human Cloud platform segment (besides Online Staffing and Online Services) was published last week: Crowdsourcing Platforms--Mapping the Advanced Frontier of the Human Cloud Platform Landscape. And this week, I’ll be covering and reporting on a conference being held in San Francisco... More

Independence Day? Uber, ICs, and the Two-Sides of 21st Century “Online Work Arrangement Platforms”

It’s Independence Day here in the U.S., so coincidentally a very convenient context for writing this post about work, laws, independence, and the protection of rights of diverging stakeholders in our society and economy.

For those of us who have been studying 21st century “online work arrangement intermediation platforms” (Online Staffing, Crowdsourcing, Online Services platforms, etc.), there... More