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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: It Takes an Online Community to Digitally Transform an Organization","summary" : "The open source movement has changed how we develop software, create content, and even do science. Using a community to help complete projects and bring about change has become so ubiquitous in the last ten years that it has even earned a name — crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a powerful tool and is now being used to help","date" : "2016-11-23T11:00:49-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"A New Prize Challenge for Virtual and Augmented Reality Learning Tools","summary" : "The Administration has launched a new competition for virtual and augmented reality developers to create learning tools to support career and technical education.","date" : "2016-11-18T12:00:22-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"erik-martin" : "Erik Martin","albert-palacios" : "Albert Palacios"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NASA: Open Gov Plan 2016 Outline","summary" : "Here is the outline for our 2016 Open Government Plan. Let us know what you think.","date" : "2016-09-29T02:00:50-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"beth-beck" : "Beth Beck"},"topics" : {
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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" : "2016-08-11T14:00:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"eric-beidel" : "Eric Beidel"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"DARPA: A Case Study in Open Innovation","summary" : "You may not know it, but the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has changed your life. There’s the Internet, for starters. And if that isn’t enough, the agency also has played a pivotal role in shaping GPS, stealth aircraft and drone technology. In fact, ever since its creation under President Eisenhower, DARPA has","date" : "2016-07-25T12:00:25-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"eric-beidel" : "Eric Beidel"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Content Corner: How to Leverage User-Generated Content to Resonate With Your Audience","summary" : "User-Generated Content (UGC) is a buzzword as of late, popularized recently due to the ever increasing demand for new content.","date" : "2016-07-11T13:30:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kyle-s-richardson" : "Kyle S. Richardson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NASA Space Apps Challenge: 2016 Global Winners!","summary" : "We’re thrilled to announce the Space Apps 2016 Global Award Winners!! These projects well represent the best of the best innovative thinking this year. Congratulations to all the teams. We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming NASA launch in Florida.","date" : "2016-06-27T14:00:49-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"beth-beck" : "Beth Beck"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"White House: Challenges, Citizen Science Among Top Innovation Efforts of Past 8 Years","summary" : "The White House this week released a report detailing the impact of 100 initiatives that have expanded U.S. capacity in science, technology and innovation over the past eight years. Evident throughout the report is the influence of Challenge.gov and CitizenScience.gov, two open innovation programs managed by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). In fact, among","date" : "2016-06-24T11:30:32-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"eric-beidel" : "Eric Beidel"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Open Data Democratizes Innovation","summary" : "Americans Use Public Data to Improve the Lives of Fellow Citizens Data is one of our most important national assets. It informs our policy and our national priorities. But as we have seen time and time again, the most effective way to govern is to engage with the public directly. Thanks to the President’s Executive Order requiring","date" : "2016-06-02T14:15:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"robin-thottungal" : "Robin A. Thottungal","kris-rowley" : "Kris Rowley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Making a Statement: When It Comes to Hackathons, a Compelling Challenge Statement Is Key to Success","summary" : "As the civic hacking movement continues to grow in the United States, agencies are starting to adopt hackathons to engage citizens in the challenging work of improving government services and solving real-world challenges using open data. Whether you are planning your own hackathon, or planning in a multi-government agency “mass collaboration” such as the National","date" : "2016-05-19T10:00:51-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nicholas-skytland" : "Nicholas Skytland"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"MCC Builds on Lessons Learned in Launch of Second Open Data Challenge","summary" : "The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)’s first open data challenge taught MCC some very valuable lessons in making its public data truly usable by the public. The challenges ask masters and PhD students to find creative ways to use MCC’s publicly-available evaluation data and provide new insights into its evaluation results. As the second challenge launches,","date" : "2016-03-25T10:00:16-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"elizabeth-zeitler" : "Elizabeth Zeitler"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Buying Power: New Labs Will Foster Innovation in Government Acquisition","summary" : "The slow, tedious federal acquisition process has long been the butt of jokes in the private sector. If the government had wanted to buy the original Nintendo, one might say, it would have all the paperwork in place by the time the rest of the world had moved on to the XBox. But that culture","date" : "2016-03-24T10:00:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kelly-olson" : "Kelly Olson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Day After: Real Impacts Begin When a Challenge Ends","summary" : "In 1927, Charles Lindbergh won the Orteig Prize for becoming the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. Few know that Lindbergh won $25,000 for the flight, but everybody knows about the revolution that followed. That transatlantic flight opened people’s minds to what was possible in air travel. Investment in the aviation","date" : "2016-02-02T10:00:52-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"eric-beidel" : "Eric Beidel"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Digging Into the Data of Our Customer Survey","summary" : "As a follow-up to the recent post about our annual customer satisfaction survey, we wanted to dig into the data and share some of the overall results to give you some more insights into how we’re using your feedback to improve our programs and services.","date" : "2016-01-05T09:00:06-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rflagg" : "Rachel Flagg"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"A Sense of Purpose: Strong Communities Can Overcome Big Challenges","summary" : "Cook-offs, bike rides, parades and dance parties—these are not the traditional public hearing-style events for which government agencies are known. But these events helped to fuel the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Rebuild by Design Challenge (PDF, 484 KB, 1 page, January 2016), boosting the collective morale among a complex, multidisciplinary network of engaged","date" : "2016-01-04T13:00:44-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"eric-beidel" : "Eric Beidel"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Providing Anytime, Anywhere Government Through Mobile App Competitions","summary" : "Agencies have used an open data competition approach in their quest to provide anytime, anywhere government. For example, in 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted the Apps for the Environment challenge and has a hub for apps created using EPA data. Here’s an update on challenges hosted by other agencies: The National Institute of Standards","date" : "2015-12-29T10:30:40-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Addressing Social Issues Through Challenge Competitions","summary" : "Innovation challenges leverage public creativity to address important problems. They can also be a tool for reaching and educating the next generation of leaders about social issues. The Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently wrapped up the second year of the Innovation in","date" : "2015-05-22T10:00:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"claire-yerke-desjardins" : "Claire Yerke Desjardins"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Saving Energy, One Green Button at a Time","summary" : "Conserving energy is not a shot in the dark. Millions of people can now shine a light on their electricity usage as a result of a dynamic public-private partnership based on open data. The goal of the Green Button Initiative is to provide electricity customers with access to their energy usage data in an easy-to-understand","date" : "2015-02-04T10:00:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NASA Reaches New Frontiers in 3D Printing","summary" : "3D printing has gone out of this world. Earlier this month, DigitalGov covered the NIH 3D Print Exchange, where 3D printing is supporting scientific learning and research. Today, we’re highlighting a project that is reaching brand new heights: NASA’s In-space Manufacturing Initiative. Self-Sufficiency in Space NASA is currently conducting 3D printing experiments aboard the International","date" : "2015-01-29T11:10:55-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"USGS, Where Citizen Science Is for the Birds","summary" : "“I tell the interns: In this lab, we’re all about failure. If you’re not failing, you’re not really doing anything.” –Sam Droege, USGS biologist, in Audubon magazine The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is actively working with citizen scientists to discover, collect, and organize a variety of scientific data that is","date" : "2015-01-20T12:10:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trend Watch 2015: What\u0026#8217;s in the Forecast for Digital Government?","summary" : "In January on DigitalGov, we’ll highlight pieces looking at trends we see coming in the digital government space in 2015 and beyond. We have lined up articles around: Customer Service Data 3D Printing at NIH and NASA Accessibility Mobile, and Training. Check back Monday, when we kick-off the month with 15 Government Customer Service Trends.","date" : "2015-01-09T12:44:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: Make 2015 the Year You Create an App","summary" : "According to some experts, over 80% of Americans will make a least one New Year’s resolution. So, if you are looking for a way to improve yourself while helping others, think about making a resolution to learn how to build a mobile app that can be used in disaster relief.","date" : "2015-01-07T10:00:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Countdown to 2015 with Our Most Popular Articles This Year","summary" : "As we round out 2014, we’re reflecting on the exciting year we’ve had at DigitalGov since we launched in February. Our mission is to share information and resources from agencies across the federal government that are working in the digital space, and highlight the services and communities that can help you meet your digital government","date" : "2014-12-31T14:45:22-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Opening Government Through Federal Crowdsourcing","summary" : "Crowdsourcing is a critical corner of the digital government landscape, and our December theme articles have covered the topic from a variety of angles. Before we head into January, where we will discuss upcoming trends on the digital horizon, we sat down to learn more about the evolution and future direction of federal crowdsourcing initiatives","date" : "2014-12-30T10:00:45-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Crowdsourcing for Accessibility","summary" : "While we’re anticipating the Section 508 refresh, many government digital media teams are facing the task of incorporating WCAG 2.0 standards (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) in their projects despite having limited staff resources and budget constraints. We can use creative solutions, such as crowdsourcing, to overcome those challenges and make our works accessible. Our teams","date" : "2014-12-29T10:00:11-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"angela-hooker" : "Angela Hooker"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Announcing the Winners of the First-Ever White House 3D Printed Ornament Challenge","summary" : "This year, innovative technologies like 3D printing are playing a role in creating a unique and interactive holiday experience at the White House. The halls of the White House are decked out with festive holiday décor and the White House Christmas tree stands tall in the Blue Room. In October, the White House announced the","date" : "2014-12-23T11:00:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"stephanie-santoso" : "Stephanie Santoso","ryan-xue" : "Ryan Xue"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Crowdsourced Digital Citizen Services Summit","summary" : "In May 2015, we are hosting the second DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit. This round we are looking to you—federal innovators across government—to help build the agenda.","date" : "2014-12-15T10:00:57-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Data Visualization Challenge: Using Open Data to Reduce Crime","summary" : "Criminal justice agencies collect a variety of information and use it in multiple ways. Having a clear understanding of current realities is critical to shaping policies and improving the administration of","date" : "2014-12-10T10:49:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nancy-merritt" : "Nancy Merritt","katie-gresham" : "Katie Gresham"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Crowdsourcing Month: An Overview","summary" : "This month we’ll be highlighting articles about crowdsourcing. These are the programs that use a variety of online mechanisms to get ideas, services, solutions, and products by asking a large, diverse crowd to contribute their expertise, talents, and skills. Among the mechanisms are hackathons, data jams, code-a-thons, prize competitions, workplace surveys, open ideation, micro-tasks or","date" : "2014-12-08T12:01:38-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Jumpstart Your Government-Sponsored Initiative in a Tight Budget Climate: Try Crowdfunding","summary" : "There are many ways to apply crowdfunding in the government space. This case study highlights the U.S. Department of State’s utilization of an online crowdfunding platform (CFP) to launch the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2.0 (AEIF 2.0). Through this fundraising platform, exchange program alumni were able to work on innovative solutions to the world’s toughest","date" : "2014-11-24T11:05:02-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"minette-wilson" : "Minette Wilson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"CFPB's IdeaBox: an Open-Source Internal Ideation Platform","summary" : "IdeaBox is an application that helps an organization collect ideas, organize them, and solicit comments and votes on the ideas. Do you want to build an innovation program at your organization? Learn how you can leverage resources from IdeaBox, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s initiative to generate, incubate, and implement great ideas from employees across the agency.","date" : "2014-11-03T10:00:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"monte-desai" : "Monte Desai"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Results Report: Robots Created for Competitions to Help Ebola Response","summary" : "Challenge competitions were recently highlighted as two potential solutions to help with the Ebola crisis responses. The first is a grand challenge launched Oct. 17, 2014, by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID): Ebola: A Grand Challenge for Development. The goal: To help health care workers on the front lines provide better care and stop","date" : "2014-10-27T10:50:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Advice from USAID on Prize Competition Communication Strategies","summary" : "A well-developed communications plan is critical to the success of a challenge competition, but too often it is one item managers leave to consider at the end of prize design. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Jarah Meador shared the Desal Prize plan and results in the September 16 webinar, “Why Your Gov","date" : "2014-09-29T01:57:25-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"USGS Picture Puzzle: Do You See Changes to the Coast?","summary" : "If you are a coastal resident, go to the beach, or are interested in digital volunteering, you can be a tremendous help in identifying and classifying changes that storms make to our coast after severe storms. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has launched iCoast, a Web application where you can view aerial photographs and help classify","date" : "2014-09-22T10:00:21-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Helpful Hints: Writing RFPs So Real Businesses Can Respond","summary" : "If you have a hand in contracts for crowdsourcing initiatives and challenge and prize competitions, here are some helpful hints for you. We’ve gathered this list from the expert businesses that provide competition services. Haven’t heard about that? See GSA Schedule 541-4G. Background: Over the last two years, competition providers and consultants have become more","date" : "2014-09-15T10:00:25-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"FTC Awards Five Winners from #DEFCON22 Robocall Honeypot Challenge","summary" : "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had such great success with their first robocall challenge competition that the agency decided to take a different angle this year—targeting the skilled hackers at DEF CON 22, the annual defense conference in Las Vegas in early August. Five winners earned cash prizes and bragging rights for their creative technical","date" : "2014-08-29T11:00:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: RealTrack – How Hackathons Help Create Apps from APIs","summary" : "Once a federal agency releases an API, there are several ways they can be used in apps. The most common method is through hackathons. Hackathons are where an agency or agencies present the API(s) and invite developers to create prototype apps. The apps","date" : "2014-07-16T10:00:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Trend is Diversity, in Challenge and Prize Competitions","summary" : "The U.S. government has launched more than 45 challenge and prize competitions so far in Fiscal Year 2014. What trends are we seeing? Well, the trend is…diversity. That might sound like an oxymoron, but federal agencies are really putting themselves out there, asking the crowd to help tackle a wide array of problems. Until August 3rd,","date" : "2014-07-15T10:00:13-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"CDC’s “Predict the Flu Season Challenge” Could Keep You Well in the Future","summary" : "The results of an innovative government prize competition might help you avoid the flu next season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced the winner of the “Predict the Influenza Season Challenge”: Dr. Jeffrey Shaman of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and his team submitted an","date" : "2014-06-24T10:00:36-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Challenge and Prize Practitioners Gather at GSA","summary" : "Got innovation? Well, we do! On Wednesday May 28, the Challenge.gov team gathered the Challenges and Prizes Community of Practice together for its quarterly meeting.","date" : "2014-06-13T10:00:48-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Overcoming Barriers—DigitalGov Summit Recap","summary" : "As government innovators, we work to improve public services every day. In essence we are already in a public private partnership. But how can your agency capitalize on existing public private partnerships to engage citizens and enhance services? Four panelists from across government shared their public private partnerships success stories at the DigitalGov Citizen Services","date" : "2014-06-05T14:09:15-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"allison-alexander" : "Allison Alexander"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Importance of Cross-Channel Customer Service—DigitalGov Summit Recap","summary" : "During the DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit last Friday, customer service experts from across government came together on a panel to share what customer service means to them and their organization and specific ways they leverage it. The other panels were on performance analysis, public private partnerships, and inter-agency work. The panelists spoke about the strategies","date" : "2014-06-05T12:13:55-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tonya-beres" : "Tonya Beres"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Harnessing the Power of Many—DigitalGov Summit Recap","summary" : "At the DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit last Friday, Jacob Parcell, Manager, Mobile Programs at the General Services Administration led a panel on the challenges and benefits of Inter-Agency work. The other panels were on performance analysis, customer service across channels, and public private partnerships. “The challenges are real,” said Parcell, who quoted President Obama’s famous salmon","date" : "2014-06-03T15:14:11-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"alison-lemon" : "Alison Lemon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Turning Data Into Action—DigitalGov Summit Recap","summary" : "At the DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit last Friday, more than 200 innovators across government and industry came together to share how digital services can improve citizen services and reduce cost. Four panels convened to share information on performance analysis, customer service across channels, public private partnerships and inter-agency work. We have a recap of the","date" : "2014-06-03T14:35:10-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"darlene-gamble" : "Darlene Gamble"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit a Success","summary" : "We had a GREAT DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit today. There were more than 200 digital innovators from across government and industry working to build the 21st century government the public expects.","date" : "2014-05-30T04:36:49-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"This Weekend: Event List for Civic Hacking","summary" : "Our fabulous colleague Jeanne Holm is ready for the #hackforchange events this weekend and summarized some tips, notes and links to resources on Data.gov. Great things will happen this weekend! Remember, if you hear about great uses of government data, let","date" : "2014-05-30T02:33:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Data Innovaton with Census at #HackForChange","summary" : "Do you want to build an application, product or business that uses Census Bureau data? There are opportunities to give feedback and get involved. Two years ago, the Census Bureau launched its application programming interface (API), giving developers access to a variety of high value data","date" : "2014-05-23T12:00:33-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"logan-powell" : "Logan Powell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Ignite with Us","summary" : "Have a DigitalGov success?—published an API? Got buy-in from leadership? Changed a part of your customer-service paradigm? Developed a cool dashboard? Got the app out the door? Heck! Have you prototyped a wearable, drivable or flyable? Have a DigitalGov opinion?—think we should be focusing more or less on something? Have an idea on how to","date" : "2014-05-21T15:00:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Introductory Call for the Disaster Apps Challenge","summary" : "The National Defense University (NDU) is hosting a conference call Friday, May 23, to spread the word about the Disaster Apps Challenge Competition, which opened yesterday. This call is open to the public, specifically the people who are interested","date" : "2014-05-20T10:00:08-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Sign up For DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit, Friday, May 30","summary" : "We won’t build the government of the 21st century by drawing within the lines. We don’t have to tell you the hard work of building a digital government doesn’t exist in a vacuum or a bubble. Show us social media without mobile, Web without data and user experience without APIs. You can’t? That’s right—in reality,","date" : "2014-05-19T03:03:16-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rflagg" : "Rachel Flagg","jherman" : "Justin Herman","tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier","jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell","apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza","jonathan-rubin" : "Jonathan Rubin"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Federal List of #HackforChange Projects","summary" : "You should be on this list—the current federal government participants in the National Day of Civic Hacking. There are 15 agencies participating in the event, primarily in and around the Washington, D.C., area. This is a fantastic compilation of what agencies are doing, but it is not enough. We need more widespread participation across the country. If","date" : "2014-05-15T12:28:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"New White House Report: Prize Competition Use Increased 85% in 2013","summary" : "We are thrilled to share an update from our competition colleagues at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The third annual comprehensive report detailing the use of prizes and","date" : "2014-05-07T13:30:07-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Civic Hacking: Pathways for Participation","summary" : "The National Day of Civic Hacking is actually a weekend. An awe-inspiring two days of collaborative work where coders, designers, writers, innovative thinkers,","date" : "2014-05-02T10:00:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"In Crowdsourcing Competitions, Defining the Problem is Half the Battle","summary" : "After leading a complex effort to crowdsource ideas to solve a problem facing your agency, the last thing you want to hear is that the innovative solutions you received don’t actually help remedy the issue. More than 20 federal innovators recently took part in","date" : "2014-04-28T10:00:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Defining Ideation in Challenge Competitions","summary" : "There is some confusion about how “ideation” fits into challenge and prize competitions. Often, we hear from agencies that they would like to ask the public for ideas, to survey them on a specific question, or to request proposals in response to a","date" : "2014-04-18T10:00:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Storyboard: A Tool for a Successful Video","summary" : "The script is king when it comes to creating a video. Once you have the words, it’s the pictures that will tell the story. Storyboards are a key component in video production. They serve as a guide during the production process, allowing the video producer to determine how the use of footage, sound bites, audio","date" : "2014-04-11T10:00:19-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jini-ryan" : "Jini Ryan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Get Started with Challenge and Prize Competitions","summary" : "Interested in running a challenge and prize competition, but don’t know where to start? Well, here are all the resources GSA’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies has to offer: 1) Challenge.gov. Put your agency’s challenges on this government-wide listing and learn about more than 300 public","date" : "2014-03-31T10:00:13-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Challenge and Competition Service Providers","summary" : "I’m sure many of you have heard the expression “there’s an app for that.” Well, now you can say “there’s a schedule for that” as you plan challenge and prize competitions with your colleagues. In 2010, GSA was asked to build Challenge.gov and set up a schedule (a list","date" : "2014-03-28T10:00:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Six Tips for Measuring Success in Challenge Competitions","summary" : "You’ve run a challenge and prize competition, selected your winners, and distributed the prizes. If you think you’re done, guess again. There’s much more to challenge and prize competition success than getting a solution that solves your problem or meets the criteria.","date" : "2014-03-20T10:09:09-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"HHS Uses Crowdsourcing in Booming mHealth Industry","summary" : "The mobile health (mHealth) market is projected to become a $50 billion industry by 2020, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been actively contributing to the rise of the mHealth applications. The agency uses public prize competitions like the recent “Game On: HIV/STD Prevention Mobile Application Video Game Challenge” to crowdsource a","date" : "2014-03-19T10:07:39-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Crowdsource Ideas with New Competition Platform","summary" : "Federal agencies now have the ability to create a challenge competition website that accepts submissions and allows public voting with a new, no-cost tool. The Challenge.gov team unveiled and demonstrated the capabilities of GSA’s new crowdsourcing and prize competition platform, Challenge.sites.usa.gov on a DigitalGov University webinar. The platform is now available for any","date" : "2014-03-11T12:26:37-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Double Digit Crowdsourcing Competitions Launch in February","summary" : "This is a phenomenal month for federal challenge and prize competitions with 12 new programs launched in February. The challenge.gov platform usually averages four to six new challenges a month, so we’re excited to see the year start off with a big push to engage citizens in creative","date" : "2014-02-26T13:25:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Lights, Camera, Action! 7 Tips to Run a Successful Video Challenge","summary" : "Not sure how to craft a video challenge that will result in the creative solutions your agency is looking for? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Jason Crusan from NASA and Tammi Marcoullier from Challenge.gov joined a recent DigitalGov University webinar to share best practices and hurdles in running video competitions. We’ve recapped their advice and key","date" : "2014-02-20T10:10:13-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Highlights from 2013 #TCOpen Coding Competition","summary" : "Our team and a few other agencies had the chance to attend the 2013 TopCoder Open this year and meet the best of the best developers, coders, designers, data scientists, and innovative thinkers in crowdsourcing. This","date" : "2014-01-10T04:02:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Results Posted: 2012 Challenge Report","summary" : "This week the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released its second comprehensive report detailing the use of federal challenge and prize competitions. Read it and you’ll find details about the fiscal benefits of more than 300 competitions implemented by 45 agencies. As the report","date" : "2013-12-20T10:06:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Challenge Contest Requirements","summary" : "As you are planning your challenge, you will want to review the relevant policies, memos, and legislation pertaining to challenge competitions.","date" : "2013-12-13T17:14:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Challenge.gov Named as Top 5 Finalist Harvard Innovation Award","summary" : "Thanks to the tremendous work of challenge managers across federal government and the support of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, the Challenge.gov program at GSA has been named one of the top 5","date" : "2013-11-26T09:34:23-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Next SocialGov Summit: Challenge and Prize Competitions","summary" : "A public prize spurred Charles Lindbergh to fly across the Atlantic, and this week social media managers across government will help a new generation of prize competitions take flight. These sessions aren’t just for social media managers who have held a challenge or are","date" : "2013-11-19T09:39:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jherman" : "Justin Herman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Ideation Challenges","summary" : "Tips for Conducting an Ideation Challenge Examples of Ideation Challenges Criteria for Choosing an Ideation Platform Online Platforms and Tools Challenge and prize competitions are one tool that federal agencies use to drive innovation and solve mission-centric problems—whether technical, scientific, or creative. One type of competition is ideation, which allows you to collect ideas from","date" : "2013-11-14T13:13:08-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Key to Successful Prize Competitions: Define Your Problem Statement","summary" : "In a prize competition, failing to properly define your problem up front can result in lower participation and submissions that don’t actually solve your issue. To create a challenge that produces viable results, start by doing your own homework. Vaguely defined problems invite less-than-desirable solutions or scare","date" : "2013-11-13T13:06:21-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Software and Apps Challenges","summary" : "Challenge and prize competitions are one path that federal agencies take to drive innovation and solve mission-centric problems—whether technical, scientific, or creative. One type of competition is software and apps challenges, where solvers are asked to develop specific software or other code-based technical solutions, such as websites, mobile applications, or algorithms. Here you’ll find tips","date" : "2013-11-06T14:13:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Federal Government Challenges and Contests","summary" : "What is a Challenge? In a challenge, a “seeker” challenges “solvers” to identify a solution to a particular problem, or rewards contestants for accomplishing a goal. The solutions may be: ideas, designs, logos, videos, finished products, digital games, or mobile applications. There are many challenge success stories in government: Challenges Conducted in 2011 Under America COMPETES Act","date" : "2013-11-01T13:10:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Technology Demonstration and Market Stimulation Challenges","summary" : "Challenge and prize competitions are one path that federal agencies take to drive innovation and solve mission-centric problems—whether technical, scientific, or creative. One type of competition is technology demonstration and market stimulation prizes, competitions that result in fully developed solutions to address market failures, solve significant problems facing society, or catalyze and demonstrate breakthrough technical","date" : "2013-10-31T13:32:25-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Thousands of Calls Blocked, Thanks to Contest Winner","summary" : "Technology to block robocalls is a huge win for consumers and for challenge competitions this year. The FTC awarded a prize to Aaron Foss, creator of Nomorobo, in April. The technology went to market September 30, and the tool has already blocked more","date" : "2013-10-25T09:45:09-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Partnerships Can Add Value to Prize Competitions","summary" : "The right partner can be the key to a successful challenge competition. If you’re planning a challenge for your agency, you’ve probably had to ask: “Do we have the tools and capabilities to pull off this challenge on our own?” Why we form partnerships Often times, the answer is, “no.” But that shouldn’t stop you from","date" : "2013-10-21T10:27:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Planning an Apps Challenge","summary" : "Apps challenges are a great way to spur innovation and help your agency meet its mission. But before you jump in, learn about how apps challenges work, to ensure yours is successful. Design Concept or Functioning App? What kind of product do you want from your apps challenge? A working app; or A concept for","date" : "2013-05-08T02:27:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Harvard\u0026#8217;s Top 25 Innovations in Government","summary" : "Nine federal programs made the list! Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation announced the Top 25 Innovations in Government May 1. A winner and four finalists will be revealed this fall. The Washington Post described how Harvard’s review","date" : "2013-05-01T14:22:08-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"USAID, HHS \u0026 DOL Mobile Gov App Challenge Winners","summary" : "One way federal agencies create Mobile Gov products is through third party development. Some agencies use platforms like Challenge.gov to get the word out to developers and there have been 3 mobile app challenge awards so far this","date" : "2013-03-07T11:21:19-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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