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Civic crowdfunding will challenge governments and charities

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imageCrowdfunding could impact the role governments play in the future.Image sourced from shutterstock.com

The online crowdsourcing of ideas and capital has transformed business tasks such as innovation, technical problem solving and product design. It has also revolutionised startup financing and scaled peer-to-peer lending. What was once in the...

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