Government Initiatives

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Open innovation applications in the government has come a long way since the launch of the U.S. intelligence agencies' internal wiki Intellipedia in 2005. Collaborative applications now span several government agencies ...

  • Open Innovation Portal The Education Department’s Open Innovation Portal crowdsources ideas for innovation in education
  • TSA IdeaFactory enables employees to develop, promote, and improve innovative ideas for programs, processes, and technologies and share them directly, without filter, to the entire TSA community.
  • Library of Congress Flickr Project is a nice example of the government publishing its archives at a social media site and letting the citizens evolve the exhibition with their comments.
  • NASA Ames Colab enables researchers around the globe to build relationships with NASA scientists supporting open source projects.
  • OMB Max wiki is a secure government-only collaboration wiki site with over 7,000 users. The White House is using OMB’s MAX wiki to solicit innovative ideas, proposals and brainstorming about how government can tackle the topics of transparency, public participation and collaboration.
  • DASHlink is a public NASA Web 2.0 website for NASA scientists and research partners to share data and knowledge with each other. CHI 2009 paper
  • The Collaboration Project is an independent forum launched by National Academy of Public Administration to leverage web 2.0 and the benefits of collaborative technology to solve government's complex problems.
  • DoDTechipedia, a collaboratively-produced encyclopedia on DoD scientific and technical issues, aims to increase communication and collaboration among DoD scientists, engineers, and acquisition professionals, as well as operational warfighters, and academic and private sector partners.
  • DISA Forge.mil brings collaborative open source development to accelerate delivery of dependable software, services and systems for net-centric operations and warfare.
  • In Transforming Government Through Collaborative Innovation, Satish Nambisan discusses how government agencies can partner with external citizen, nonprofit and corporate networks to transform the business of government.
  • The MIT Technology Review article discusses TIGR (Tactical Ground Reporting System) developed by DARPA and fielded by the 1st Cavalry.
  • The Peer to Patent Project opens the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent examination process to the public.
  • Listen to Jon Udell's interview with Lewis Shepherd Senior Technical Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on Intellipedia
  • Listen to John Garstka - the Assistant Director, Concepts and Operations, Office of Force Transformation (OFT) discuss collaboration innovation required for Network Centric Warfare.
  • Federal Research Public Access Act The bipartisan Federal Research Public Access Act, introduced on May 2, 2006 by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT), would require that U.S. government agencies make manuscripts of journal articles stemming from research funded by Federal agencies publicly available via the Internet.
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