Challenges and Prizes
Types of challenges–ideation, software and apps, creative and tech–and the platforms and tools for success.
Resources on Challenges and Prizes
Guidance on the Use of Challenges and Prizes to Promote Open Government —In September 2009, the President released his Strategy for American Innovation, calling for agencies to increase their ability to promote …
Tools and Services
Challenge.gov —Provides resources and collaborative opportunities to facilitate the use of prize competitions in government.
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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 Challenges and Prizes
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Federal Crowdsourcing
Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 15 — 10x: Transforming Technology Through Agile Investments
In this webinar, we will discuss GSA’s incremental investment program, 10x, which is modeled after modern venture capital best practices and start up studios.
Federal Crowdsourcing
Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 13: Securing Water for Food’s Crowdsourcing Culture
In this webinar, we discuss how to embed crowdsourcing into the culture of a program to the benefit of the project team, and its participants.
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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.
Challenges
Agencies on a Mission to Match Service Members with Civilian Careers
Build a better application to match the skills of those who have served in the military with employer needs.
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U.S. Government Open Innovation Summit
Transformation Through Citizen Science and Prize Competitions
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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.
A Design Challenge to Improve How School Data is Reported
Join ED for two days of sketching, prototyping, and building solutions to help states design family-friendly approaches that make school data more transparent and accessible.
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What You Need to Know: Required Prize Reporting to Congress
Federal employees who have been involved in running a prize competition for their agencies at any point during fiscal years 2017 and 2018 should attend this information session on prize reporting.
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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
DigitalGov University in Review: 2016 Training Trends
DigitalGov University (DGU), the events platform for DigitalGov, provides programming to build and accelerate digital capacity by providing webinars and in-person events highlighting innovations, case studies, tools, and resources. Thanks to your participation, DGU hosted over 90 events with 6,648 attendees from over 100 agencies across federal, tribal, state, and local governments.
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
A New Prize Challenge for Virtual and Augmented Reality Learning Tools
Summary: The Administration has launched a new competition for virtual and augmented reality developers to create learning tools to support career and technical education. “I’m calling for investments in educational technology that will help create… educational software that’s as compelling as the best video game. I want you guys to be stuck on
Challenge.gov Launches One-Click Reporting for Annual Prizes Data Call
This year, the deadline for agencies to submit their reporting of incentive prize competitions and challenges for FY16 comes earlier than most. Roughly two weeks from today, by Nov. 18, federal agencies are required to submit their accounts of every prize, competition, or challenge that launched, ran or completed in FY16 via email. {{< legacy-img
