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It is this same belief in the ingenuity of the American people that guides the Administration's efforts to make government more effective, innovative, and open.
President Obama challenged them to "come up with the best ways of doing business, of harnessing the best information technologies, of cutting red tape, and breaking through the bureaucracy
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- In just the first week the site has been accessed 29,000 times, by 7,000 users, with over 3000 ideas. This is an astonishing participation rate. Together with Chief Performance Officer Zients, Chief Information Officer Kundra, and their respective teams, we’re going to work relentlessly to make this competition a potent engine of employee-driven change.

Federal News Radio 1500 AM: Veterans Affairs' "Innovation Competition" is leading by example

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22 Nov 09

Manor 2.0 documents ‘Live Government Innovation From Small-Town Texas’ | GovFresh: Gov 2.0 Government 2.0

"We’re excited to announce Manor 2.0: Live Government Innovation From Small-Town Texas, a City of Manor, TX, and GovFresh collaboration.

Manor 2.0 will document our Gov 2.0 efforts, including our innovation initiative, Manor Labs. Our goal is to share, collaborate and connect with local governments like ours who want to leverage innovative technologies to better serve its citizens.

Tune in to http://manor.govfresh.com and join us on our Gov 2.0 journey."

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City of Manor launches Manor Labs to crowdsource innovative ideas | GovFresh: Gov 2.0 Government 2.0

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21 Nov 09

Blogging Innovation: General Mills' Open Innovation Initiative - Latest innovation articles, videos, and insights

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15 Nov 09

In Iceland, Trying to Reprogram Government - General News

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The group’s mission is
no less attention-getting than its name: it is pursing how Icelanders can
breakdown hierarchies that elevate people like himself far above the rest of
society in the first place
“People wanting change were basically split in two groups,”
he said. “There were people who
went to protest, and people who joined groups like the Ministry of Ideas,
planning for the future.” The problem, as he saw it, did not arise because of
one specific government, but was a result of the way that representative
democracy functioned, or didn't.
It was too passive, and a whole new social construct was needed.
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- At the assembly itself, the masses will be broken down into
  groups of nine. With the help of discussion facilitators who have been trained
  to ensure the roundtable discussions are healthy, participants will discuss what values defines them as a
  nation. To ascertain exactly how these groups of nine will arrive at a larger
  consensus, when each participant comes up with a proposed value – Mr.
  Gudjonsson expects 20,000 ideas to be proposed – it will be “tagged” by that
  group electronically, like on a blog.
- Tags will be monitored by a backroom staff who will
  ascertain which values were deemed important most frequently. The top nine will
  be considered Iceland's moral pillars for the purposes of the National
  Assembly. From there, slightly larger groups will discuss how to build social
  frameworks — economic, educational, justice, and health care systems — based on
  these core values. For each value, the assembled groups will come up with nine
  ideas on how to improve society (nine, according to Mr. Gudjonsson, is an ideal
  number for group work.)
- “We are about making society better.”