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Crowdsourcing Leads to Civic Engagement: Four Real-World Examples

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Civic engagement is fundamental to good governance, and crowdsourcing is a powerful way to draw in an enormous range of constituencies to hear what they feel is crucial to making their city a better place. Below are a few examples of civic engagement accomplished via crowdsourcing.

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Government Hackathons: Five Steps to Success

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Friendly competition can bring out the best of us, and when developing government innovation, hackathons can help solve certain challenges through crowdsourced innovation and build engagement across your constituency. So how does it work, and how can you hold an effective government hackathon?

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Four Ways Crowdsourcing is Being Used to Encourage Civic Engagement

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How do you build a better government? Crowdsourcing! Innovation is probably most strongly needed in the public sphere, in good times or in bad, no matter who leads the country. If driving civic innovation is your goal, here’s a practical look about turning passion into action. How can we engage them?

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Three Inside Stories of Innovation in Government

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Crowdsourcing reaches the citizens unable to make meetings. Governments are increasingly turning to crowdsourcing and open innovation to encourage citizens across the spectrum to weigh in with ideas, opinions, and perspectives. Voting isn’t the only way to engage with democracy. City Of Atlanta.

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

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Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. It’s a role in government that demands constant innovation. Small Business Administration.

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Identifying the Value of Crowdsourcing: A Talk with Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber

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Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. Instead, companies are adopting a way of solving problems known as open innovation. One method for practicing open innovation is through crowdsourcing, the process of sharing ideas across industries to solve a common problem.

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How Open Source Can Help Drive Government Innovation

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For governments, this allows better citizen engagement and support without committing substantial funds to upgrading or becoming locked into proprietary systems. Open source materials draw engaged people to contribute more and interact with each other. Why Does Open Source Drive Innovation For Governments?