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    "title" : "Another Year, Another Leap Forward for Prize Competitions |Digital.gov",
    "description": "Another Year, Another Leap Forward for Prize Competitions",
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    {"title" :"Another Year, Another Leap Forward for Prize Competitions","summary" : "If federal agencies need an incentive to be more open and innovative in addressing critical issues, they need look no further than news this week from the White House. On August 10, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy  issued its Implementation of Federal Prize Authority Progress Report for fiscal year 2015, and","date" : "2016-08-11T14:00:12-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"eric-beidel" : "Eric Beidel"},"topics" : {
        
            "challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges and prize competitions",
            "crowdsourcing-and-citizen-science" : "Crowdsourcing and citizen science"
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      "filepath" :"news/2016/08/2016-08-11-another-year-another-leap-forward-for-prize-competitions.md",
      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/08/2016-08-11-another-year-another-leap-forward-for-prize-competitions.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/08/2016-08-11-another-year-another-leap-forward-for-prize-competitions.md","slug" : "another-year-another-leap-forward-for-prize-competitions","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/08/11/another-year-another-leap-forward-for-prize-competitions/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eIf federal agencies need an incentive to be more open and innovative in addressing critical issues, they need look no further than \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/10/public-sector-prizes-and-challenges-continue-grow-use-and-sophistication\"\u003enews\u003c/a\u003e this week from the White House.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn August 10, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp\"\u003eWhite House Office of Science and Technology Policy\u003c/a\u003e issued its \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/10/public-sector-prizes-and-challenges-continue-grow-use-and-sophistication\"\u003eImplementation of Federal Prize Authority Progress Report\u003c/a\u003e for fiscal year 2015, and it’s chock-full of examples of how agencies have advanced their missions through crowdsourcing and open competition. \u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/12/600-x-414-Crowdsourcing-nevarpp-iStock-Thinkstock-467787670.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Various teams contribute to a solution\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 2010, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.challenge.gov/\"\u003eChallenge.gov\u003c/a\u003e as a place for federal agencies to announce challenges and for citizens to compete for prizes by offering their talents and expertise to the government.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring that time, GSA has trained more than 1,500 agency staff members on the effective use of challenges and worked tirelessly to build momentum and share resources through a growing federal \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/communities/challenges-prizes/\"\u003ecommunity of practice\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/fy2015_competes_prizes_report.pdf\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2016/08/250-x-323-Implementation-of-Federal-Prize-Authority-Fiscal-Year-2015-Progress-Report_August-2016-cover-WH-OSTP.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Report cover. Click to read the August 2016 White House report pdf file.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003eThe work is making a difference and catching on in new places across government. Just look at some of the numbers in the White House’s new report.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween September 2010 and March 2015, Challenge.gov featured 396 competitions from 72 agencies. By June of this year, there were over 700 challenges from more than 100 agencies listed on the site.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat’s a huge surge over the past year in terms of challenges launched and the number of agencies running competitions for the first time.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut it’s not just sheer volume. Agencies are turning to prize competitions to confront critical issues of national importance such as climate change and infectious disease.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey’re also getting creative in how they structure and use these competitions. The report detailed trends in how agencies are:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003epartnering to design more ambitious and sophisticated prizes;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eemploying new models for engaging the public during competitions;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eusing prizes in conjunction with other activities as part of a broader portfolio within a program;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ebuilding momentum for a specific issue through a series of challenges; and\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eaddressing market failures through the commercialization of solutions from challenges.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more specifics on the challenges run this year, be sure to check out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/fy2015_competes_prizes_report.pdf\"\u003eentire report\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/04/600-x-165-ChallengeGov-logo.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Full logo for Challenge.gov with the tagline: Government Challenges, Your Solutions.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n"}
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