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
Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 14: Putting Open Data to Work for America’s Communities
Learn how federal agencies can leverage The Opportunity Project’s adaptable toolkit to engage cross-sector collaborators and rapidly prototype digital products powered by federal open data.
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 12: How AFWERX Crowdsources an Innovation Culture
The Air Force is catalyzing innovation with a variety of partners.
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 11: Mobile Testing Program Makes Content More Accessible
Agencies optimize mobile experiences with help from federal testers.
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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, Episode 7: Crowdsourcing for Code
Learn how the Code.gov team, and every day contributors, are helping the U.S. government to expand its repository—and application—of open-source code as part of Code.gov’s Open Tasks initiative.
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 6: The FedRAMP Ideation
Betsy Steele, of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) team, shares how a crowdsourcing initiative invited the larger cybersecurity community to help inform the next iteration of government’s cloud security authorization program.
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 5: By the People
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. While often referred to as the research arm of Congress, it is hardly limited to lawmakers. It is open to the public who, in fact, are also helping to make their digital collections more accessible and available to all.
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 4: Open Opportunities
The Open Opportunities program is a “win-win” for federal employees looking to refresh their skills and U.S. agencies seeking talent, energy, and enthusiasm from across a diverse cross-section of the federal workforce.
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Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 3: 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
