Crowdsourcing
Resources on Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing Toolkit for Federal Agencies —What is a Challenge? In a challenge, a “seeker” challenges “solvers” to identify a solution to a particular problem, …
Tools and Services
CitizenScience.gov —A catalog of federal crowdsourcing and citizen science projects.
Join a Community of Practice
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Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science —We work across government develop best practices for designing, implementing, and evaluating crowdsourcing and citizen science initiatives.
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Challenge & Prize —We encourage public participation in crowdsourcing competitions to find innovative government solutions.
News and Events on Crowdsourcing
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 9: A Match Made in History
History Hub is a crowdsourcing platform that helps the public find historical records.
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 8: How NASA@WORK Ignites Ideas from Within
Learn how NASA’s workforce contributes inspiring ideas as part of internal idea competitions facilitated NASA@WORK program.
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series: The Opportunity Project
The Opportunity Project engages government, communities, and the technology industry to create digital tools that address our greatest challenges as a nation. Learn how this initiative is making government data more accessible through cross-sector collaboration.
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 2: Challenge.gov
Need help solving a problem? Join Challenge.gov to learn how federal agencies can use prize competitions to reach innovators in novel ways.
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 1: Citizen Science
This is the first installment of GSA’s Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, where we look at how to use crowdsourcing to reach beyond your walls and source talent and enthusiasm.
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Federal Challenge & Prize Community of Practice Quarterly Meeting
Crowdsourcing experts from around the federal government come together to discuss trends, success stories and lessons learned in the use of competitions.
Want to Expand Your Innovation Base? Dive In, Run a Challenge, and Listen to Your Customers
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is a small agency in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) whose mission is to increase the interoperability and use of electronic health records and health IT. We don’t have the funding and personnel of larger agencies, and, for the most part, this is fine. The
The Data Briefing: It Takes an Online Community to Digitally Transform an Organization
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
GAO to Congress: Federal Agencies Are Making a Difference Through Open Innovation
Federal agencies confront tough problems every day. In searching for solutions, agencies will want to attract different perspectives, test new products, build capacity and communities, and increase public awareness. How do they do it? The answer: open innovation. Federal agencies need to engage and collaborate with all sectors of society, a task made easier by
Join us for a Gender Equality Edit-a-thon on October 22, 2016
Come out and join us on Saturday, October 22, 2016 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm for a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Gender Equality in the Innovation Hub at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Register for this event today!
Crowdsourcing at the Law Library of Congress
The Law Library acquired a large collection from William S. Hein & Co., Inc. to make all volumes of several collections (like the Federal Register) available in open access to researchers. Preparing these files by adding metadata for easy searching takes a lot of work, so this summer we asked law students and library students from
What is Citizen Science? A Recent Webinar Explores How the Federal Government Engages the Public via Crowdsourcing
From the National Park Service (NPS) to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the use of citizen science has become a prominent factor in the science community and a critical tool for the federal government.
Another Year, Another Leap Forward for Prize Competitions
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
The Content Corner: How to Leverage User-Generated Content to Resonate With Your Audience
User-Generated Content (UGC) is a buzzword as of late, popularized recently due to the ever increasing demand for new content. To define the phrase, let’s look to a shining example of it,Wikipedia, as a source, “any form of content such as blogs, wikis, discussion forums, posts, chats,tweets, podcasts, digital images, video, audio files, advertisements, and other
NASA Space Apps Challenge: 2016 Global Winners!
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.
