Tapas: Spend an hour or so looking for federal agencies using micro & macrovolunteering and crowdsourcing for mission related purposes.
Instructions: Put the URL for the initiative directly in the comments for this post. Include your name and agency affiliation (so we can acknowledge your contribution).
Examples:
- Citizen Archivist
- Virtual Student Foreign Service
- Smithsonian Digital Volunteers,
- See also, Government Crowdsourcing on Wikipedia
Context: We will use this resource to form a user group of federal agencies using (or interested in using) crowdsourcing and microvunteering to complete their mission. This task is important so agencies can see what others are doing to help spur ideas and learn from others’ experiences. Some of these experiences might become best practices, blog posts or a followup webinar. It’s all part of the formula to help agencies jumpstart their efforts to build a 21st century digital government. You’ll help us make sure we don’t miss anything!
Duration: 1 hour
Deadline: This is an ongoing task. You can volunteer to do it once, or many times.
By Stephanie Grosser August 21, 2013 - 1:16 pm
In June 2012, USAID launched the Agency’s first-ever crowdsourcing initiative to pinpoint the location of USAID Development Credit Authority (DCA) loan data and make the dataset publicly available. Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving process whereby tasks are outsourced to a network of people known as “the crowd.”
The engagement of the Crowd was an innovative way to process data and increase the transparency of the Agency. Visualizing where USAID enhances the capacity of the private sector can signal new areas for potential collaboration with host countries, researchers, development organizations, and the public. A case study explains the organizational, legal, and technical steps behind making these data open.
http://transition.usaid.gov/our_work/economic_growth_and_trade/development_credit/pdfs/2012/USAIDCrowdsourcingCaseStudy.pdf