Digital economy blueprint

1.5.2.3 Crowdsourcing Platforms:

The Crowdsourcing platform is a collaborative and 

innovation-focused approach in which governments 

openly  collaborate  with  citizens,  companies,  other 

government organisations or NGOs. In this approach, 

government serves as an orchestrator or hub for eco-

system collaboration, but with largely undefined roles 

for participants. This platform is best suited for coun-

tries in which new policy issues demand innovative 

problem solving with civil society.

The archetypical crowdsourcing platform, www.inno-

centive.com, pays a bounty for ideas and global ex-

pertise on highly complex issues. It is far cheaper to 

use bounty programs than to fund in-house research 

and development (R&D). More government types 

like the USAID Grand Challenge for fighting the Eb-

ola epidemic or UNHCR’s open platform, “UNHCR 

Ideas,” which invites ideas for improving the lives of 

refugees are other examples worth emulating.