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"Typically, workload fluctuations around tax season require departments to hire seasonal staff or work second shifts to accommodate increased demands, which creates logistical headaches and...
This is no small task: They plan to hire a reporter in each state to do ground-level reporting and compile information for the index as well write stories. Where they hope to transform the...
City governments were the first to hop on the crowdsourcing trend. Austin and several other cities (including Seattle and Santa Cruz) employ a service called UserVoice, which can be used for any...
Ulrich Freise, Berlin’s Secretary of State for Home Affairs, described Berlin’s open data site as base for administrative action that citizens could use to make decisions, find facts and involve...
Crowdsourcing requires massive contributions by volunteers. Yet processes driven by volunteers are less predictable and less controllable than formal processes, which in a fragile state context...
Utilizing crowdsourcing and collaboration at the heart of the challenge, the Tag Challenge is a social gaming competition which is sponsored by the US Department of State and the US Embassy in...
The Michigan effort aims to use crowdsourcing among employees to find potential places for improvement. State workers will be encouraged to offer ideas online and vote for their favorites. Snyder’s...
In recent years, local governments have been increasingly partnering with crowdfunding sites to fund and support public projects, especially in light of shrinking budgets. These crowdfunding sites...
The White House as taken public feedback on designing democracy with “ExpertNet,” a proposed citizen consultation platform. Citizen engagement platforms grew in 2010. There will be more coming...
In this paper they have presented a case study and the framework of the community mapping projects within Kenya, focusing on recent efforts in Tanzania.Because of the ubiquitous nature of mobile...
A genuine hard problem to overcome for governments to be successful at "crowdsourcing" is that most local governments work within a political atmosphere and thus don’t want to be...
The new report, State of the Federal Web, is the culmination of work by the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration's Citizen Services team to survey federal...
According to the study “The Role of Crowdsourcing for Better Governance in Fragile States Contexts”, crowdsourcing can help transform better governance in three ways: 1)By sharing, debating...
Rose Gottemoeller, acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control, during a recent speech in Seattle, called on programmers and engineers to develop new crowdsourcing tools that could be...
The story of ALEC's role in U.S. politics and government is a complicated one, making the response perhaps uniquely suited to online organizing. Research and story-telling, once done, can hang...
Hedi Ben Abbes, secretary of state for the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Tunisia addresses the Open Government Partnership in Brasilia and speaks to the Guardian's Public Leaders Network...
Nick Hurd, MP, Minister for Civil Society, said: “I am delighted to present this cheque to Young Rewired State on behalf of the people who backed them on peoplefund.it. This has been made...
Of course, there are limitations. "Crowd-sourcing can't build bridges," adds Fuch, author of Mayors and Money: Fiscal Policy in New York and Chicago. "This idea that you can...
Deltek, Inc. (Nasdaq: PROJ), the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for professional services firms and government contractors, today announced the release of...
Crowdfunding has been a big buzzword in the realms of sustainability, green initiatives, and renewable energy. Clean energy sits at an interesting intersection between an invested, enthusiastic...
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