How United Way Served Community Needs During the COVID-19 Crisis
Stories and information about the coronavirus pandemic have been all over the news – on our social media feeds, newspapers, and TV. In order to see the problems in United Way's communities before they hit the news, United Way [...]
How The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Recognizes Emerging Innovators
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy. And when they decided that they wanted to diversify their approach to innovation, they decided [...]
Infographic: Five Crowdsourced Solutions from Surprising Places
Crowdsourcing allows us to find new ideas in places we hadn't thought to look. Here are five examples of great ideas and the ideators that believed in them that are from across the government, private enterprise, and nonprofit world. [...]
From Ideas to Outcomes: How to Turn Promising Crowdsourced Concepts Into Solutions That Deliver Impact
As a commander in the U.S. Coast Guard, Tyson Weinert led a movement to re-imagine how innovation could leverage human-centered design and crowdsourcing to inspire servicemembers to tackle vexing challenges and design impactful solutions. Building a new challenge-based model [...]
Case Study Comics: NASA COVID-19 Edition
NASA is a United States government agency that is responsible for science and technology related to air and space, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, the prevailing, can-do NASA workforce expressed their drive [...]
How to Utilize Crowdsourcing as Part of Your Agency’s COVID-19 Response Strategy
As part of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (USDOL) efforts to support American workers and position the economy for a strong rebound, USDOL hosted an IdeaScale national online dialogue to solicit ideas about challenges that may be faced as [...]
2020 IM Awards: NASA
In their NASA@Work community, anyone with NASA credentials can run challenges, share problems, and post solutions. The Center for Collaborative Excellence and Innovation (CoECI) team makes all that possible. They coach challenge owners, right-size rewards and incentives, and encourage [...]
NASA’s Internal Crowd
This session will discuss best practices determined through NASA's past 8 years of running an internal crowdsourcing program. It includes best practices around engagement, process, and innovation storytelling.
NASA’s Innovation Program with IdeaScale
Ryon Stewart from NASA discusses the importance of buy-in in the innovation program.
