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Why Governments Have Failed at Crowdsourcing

Posted by Robert Singleton. GovLoop, December 20, 2011. "Two Words: User Acquisition - Local, state and national Governments have yet to fully take advantage of the many platforms available for crowd sourcing policy primarily because they have failed to court a significant enough user base to generate a genuine and sustained online community. Without a diverse enough, self-regulating community of users who are continually participating in the creation and editing of content, many sites, specifically those who focus on a single jurisdiction or municipality, have simply become one stop suggestion boxes. This is helpful and to some extent valuable, but primitive in its overall effect on the governing process..."

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