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Citizen Suggestion Database

Good ideas from citizens are implemented faster through collaboration and market incentives

Today's social media environment can greatly leverage citizen participation in government. The Center creates a citizen suggestion database and discussion forum that commercial vendors can search for feasible projects that save government money. Citizens and government employees post suggestions to the public database. Commercial software developers and other commercial companies evaluate the ideas, and they can transparently submit project proposals, or even prototypes of valuable ideas. The government organization that is the subject of the recommendation may then choose to implement it. Commercial companies do the initial analysis work and prioritize the best recommendations.

There are also many ideas which hold no revenue potential for the Center’s vendor community, but are valuable to government. Government organizations themselves may also review citizen ideas for innovative opportunities.

Commercial companies and government organizations may vote on the suggestions' return-on-investment potential so that a prioritized list is posted to the Center's site.

Connecting ideas to implementors nationwide

An example would be a citizen recommends that a mobile app be created to help drivers who are locked out of their car, find the nearest licensed locksmith. A commercial vendor viewing that suggestion could create a prototype, propose it on our website, and the state licensing board could purchase and implement the app thereby improving citizen services.

The Center evolves the citizen suggestion website concept. It brings citizens, private industry, and government into an innovative environment where good ideas are implemented faster through collaboration and market incentives.

To get started, send a suggestion to http://www.gov-ideas.com/contact.htm. Please describe the benefits, and to the best of your ability, send us the following: one-time and ongoing costs, performance measurement strategy, risks, timeline, and a summarized plan how the idea could be tested in a stepwise manner that measures benefits and mitigates risk at each step. If your suggestion is approved, it will be posted to our website.


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