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Challenge and Prize Practitioners Gather at GSA
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. The group covered two topics:...
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The Trend is Diversity, in Challenge and Prize Competitions
maroznc/iStock/Thinkstock 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...
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“Deconstructing” Public Prize Competitions Can Result in Better Solutions
Igor Poleshchuk/Hemera/Thinkstock When faced with a big, daunting problem to solve, it’s human nature to try to tackle it by breaking it down into smaller parts and taking it “one step at a time.” The...
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Challenge, Contract or Grant – Which tool is right for the job?
PixelEmbargo/iStock/Thinkstock Choosing between a contract, a grant, or a public prize competition to get solutions to the problems your agency faces is a difficult task. Each is a tool that has...
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Helpful Hints: Writing RFPs So Real Businesses Can Respond
Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock 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...
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Prize competitions and challenges don’t advertise themselves. In fact, in order to maximize the solvers, and therefore the chances of getting a great solution, you need a carefully planned...
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Introducing the New Challenge.gov
Challenge.gov now hosts the full federal-wide listing of crowdsourcing competitions and has a back-end platform for agencies to create and manage their competitions. The site is managed and produced...
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Results Report: Robots Created for Competitions to Help Ebola Response
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...
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CFPB’s IdeaBox: an Open-Source Internal Ideation Platform
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...
View ArticleHow to Post on Challenge.gov: Listing and Managing Federal Prize Competitions
Note: All DigitalGov University events take place in Eastern Standard Time. REGISTER NOW Learn how to list your challenge and prize competitions on Challenge.gov, the government’s one-stop-shop for...
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Crowdsourcing Month: An Overview
scanrail/iStock/Thinkstock 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...
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Challenge & Prize Competition Round-Up
Bplanet/iStock/Thinkstock We’ve had an excellent year of training and community events for the federal challenge and prize community, so for the month of December DigitalGov University has taken a look...
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Opening Government Through Federal Crowdsourcing
Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Wavebreak Media/Thinkstock Crowdsourcing is a critical corner of the digital government landscape, and our December theme articles have covered the topic from a variety of angles....
View ArticleChallenge and Prize Database: Background, Data Scrub, & Reporting...
Note: All DigitalGov University events take place in Eastern Standard Time. REGISTER NOW **This webinar is open only to federal employees part of the Challenges and Prizes Community of Practice. With...
View ArticleChallenges Communities of Practice Meeting
Note: All DigitalGov University events take place in Eastern Standard Time. REGISTER NOW The federal challenge and prize community meets once a quarter to get training, exchange information, and talk...
View ArticleWhy Your Gov Prize Competition Needs A Communication Strategy
Prize competitions and challenges don’t advertise themselves. In fact, in order to maximize the solvers, and therefore the chances of getting a great solution, you need a carefully planned...
View ArticleMay Challenge & Prize Community of Practice Meeting
Note: All DigitalGov University events take place in Eastern Standard Time. REGISTER NOW This is an in-person meeting in Washington, D.C. For those not in the D.C. area, we will provide a livestream...
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Competitions Launch Start-ups and Engage Entrepreneurs
When people hear about challenge competitions, they most often ask about the results. What worked and why did it work? Two great examples are featured on the White House Office of Science and...
View ArticleJudging Prize Competitions: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Note: All DigitalGov University events take place in Eastern Standard Time. REGISTER NOW In this webinar we’ll hear from experts at OSTP, NASA, FTC and USAID on best practices in judging prize...
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