Federal crowdsourcing is here to stay – hopefully

Federal Times: As the Obama administration prepares to give way to the Trump administration, one area in which there will hopefully be continuity is the use of crowdsourcing methodologies by federal agencies.

The Obama administration has been a proponent of crowdsourcing through its tenure. In 2010, the Obama administration issued a memorandum outlining how federal agencies could use prize-motivated crowdsourcing models to achieve strategic goals. In 2015, the White House called for increased use of crowdsourcing in federal agencies and non-governmental organizations. In 2016, Kelly Olson, acting director of the GSA Technology Transformation Service’s Innovation Portfolio, affirmed the need for continued crowdsourcing in government in a blog post.

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