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Crowdsourcing Innovation in Government:

Using IdeaScale to Impact Government Policies & Outcomes

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We have ideas!

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Innovate Your State

Innovate Your State is a nonprofit (501c3) organization dedicated to educating and encouraging public participation to fundamentally improve government. Innovate Your State believes that through innovation and collaboration we can find solutions to the governance challenges we face today.

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Fix California Challenge

A contest to find ways to improve the State of California.

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Vetted 16 crowdsourcing platforms Did a detailed review of 5 and decided to use...

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Challenge Outcome

Received 500+ ideas, 6,300 votes, and 1,100 comments

• ver the course of 9 weeks.

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Winners

Earned Media

50+ Media Stories

w/ Potential Audience

• f more than 120 million

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Offline Event

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Innovation Winner!

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Learnings

• Self-moderation and community vetting happened naturally
• Offline events promoted engagement and idea generation
• Chance at funding your idea was great incentive to participate

○ “Venture Governance”

• Leveraging social platforms to increase engagement was key

○ Developed Ideascale share function

• Bracketed roll out of winners was a great way to sustain interest
• Earned media coverage was helpful for driving traffic to the site

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Environmental Changes Needed

+ Funding + Engagement + Partners

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Innovate With Us!

Caroline Bruister - caroline@innovateyourstate.org Allie Klun - alexandra@innovateyourstate.org

www.innovateyourstate.org Twitter: @IYS_org

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