Promoting Innovation:
Prizes, Challenges and Open Grantmaking
A report from the conference hosted by the Case Foundation,the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the White House Domestic Policy Council.
By Brad Rourke, the Mannakee Circle Group
August 23, 2010
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Promoting Innovation: Prizes, Challenges and Open Grantmaking
Table of Contents
Table of contents photos (top to bottom):
Public Participation for Better Decisions panel; An Ignite Sessionroundtable discusses new prize ideas; Charlie Brown, Executive
Director of Ashoka’s Changemakers; an
d Robynn Sturm, AsstDeputy CTO, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,moderates the conference
Front cover photos (left to right):
Jeff Zients, US Chief Performance Officer; Sonal Shah, Director,White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation andAndrew Petro, Program Executive for Innovation Incubator; and JeanCase, CEO, the Case Foundation and Vivek Kundra, US Chief Information Officer.
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Promoting Innovation: Prizes, Challenges and Open Grantmaking
Aneesh Chopra, the natio
n’s first Chief Technology Officer, moderates
the Promoting Innovation Ignite session.
"The productivity boom hastransformed private sector performance over the past decade,but the federal government has
missed out… and lags far behind in
terms of efficiency and servicequality. The American taxpayer deserves more bang for their buck."
–
Jeff Zients, Chief Performance Officer of the United States
Introduction
On Friday, April 30, 2010, over 200 individualsrepresenting more than 35 government agencies and35 private sector and nonprofit organizations gatheredin Washington, DC for a landmark daylong strategysession jointly convened by the Case Foundation, theWhite House Office of Science and TechnologyPolicy, and the White House Domestic Policy Council.The conference,
,brought theprivate and public sectors together to discuss lessonsand strategies learned from experiments in prizes,challenges and open grantmaking.This gathering was an extension of the Case
Foundation’s continued efforts to encourage citizen
involvement in decisions that affect them, the Obama
Open Government Directive issued inDecember 2009, and the newly-released OMBGuidance on the Use of Challenges and Prizes. This report recaps some of the key learning from theconference, focusing on takeaways rather than givinga talk-by-talk account of the sessions. (The fullagenda is available here,and speaker biographies
here,both pdf.) Quotes are by the participants andpanelists except where indicated.
Beth Noveck, Assistant Deputy Chief Technology Officer for OpenGovernment, delivers the closing remarks
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