Monday, November 23, 2009

Australiam Gov 2.0 Taskforce announces winners for its brainstorming and innovation competitions

Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce has announced the winners of its structured brainstorming competition, which was held in September - October this year.

The competition involved public submissions and voting via an ideas market system with the final decision on winners being made by the Taskforce.

In the structured brainstorming category there were two winning ideas, both nominated by Brad Peterson,

In the Government 2.0 Innovators category, the Taskforce announced three winners,

I'm honoured to both have been nominated and to have been selected amongst the winners and would like to commend the other winners for their efforts.

I'd love to see similar events run on a ongoing basis to help encourage the suggestion of good ideas, reward those innovating in government and inspire others to do likewise - similar to the US's SAVE award (introduced by President Obama in September).

Perhaps this would even inspire agencies to run similar awards/competitions internally to encourage innovation that improves their operations, as the US Transportation Security Administration does via its IdeaFactory tool.

It is very hard to manufacture innovation in a highly structured organisation, however it is relatively easy to recognise and reward it.

5 comments:

  1. Good stuff Craig - and great to see you getting the recognition you deserve.

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  2. Thanks Richard, and there are a lot of other people who deserve recognition as well.

    Cheers,

    Craig

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  3. Congratulations Craig - terrific news - good stuff!!!!! Long overdue!!!!

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  4. Congratulations - well deserved recognition,

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