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Connecting Agencies and Citizens Around Our
Nation’s Challenges
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What’s Out There?
• USDA Apps for Healthy Kids http://www.appsforhealthykids.com
• DOL Career Video Challenge
http://www.dol.gov/dol/videochallenge.htm
• ED Open Innovation Portal https://innovation.ed.gov/
• EDA i6 Challenge http://www.eda.gov/i6
• NASA Centennial Challenge
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ipp/innovation_incubator/
+ more at http://go.usa.gov/OZq
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Using Challenge.gov
The Public
Agencies Can
Can
Post challenges quickly and Find challenges by topic or
easily with workflow “wizard” agency, or just search
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Clean, Inviting Design
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Find Challenges
• Screenshot forthcoming
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Learn The Rules
• Screenshot forthcoming
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Support
Display total amount of prize money at stake for winner(s)
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Easy Challenge Creation Flow
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Out-Of-The-Box Policy Support
• We have taken care of:
• Fed-compatible Terms of Service
• Privacy Impact Assessment and Privacy Policy
• Security of Amazon cloud and application layer
• Section 508 and accessibility testing
• Persistent cookies
• Paperwork Reduction Act
• You should think about:
• Records management
• Challenge authority
• Creating an awesome challenge
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User Roles
• Select Featured Challenges
Challenge.gov
• Create Challenges
Challenge Creators • Moderate Submissions
• Invite Judges & Moderators
• Expert Judges
Challenge • Citizen Solvers
Participants • Challenge Supporters
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Our Next Steps
• Challenge.gov is currently in agency-only beta
• Looking for “a few good challenges”
• Using Staging.Challenge.gov to learn and experiment
• Featuring current challenges on other platforms
• Finding agency and department POCs
• Next, we’ll open to the public
• Celebrate the challenges, not the website
• Acquisition strategy to help locate and get expertise
• Features: Social activity feed, “Suggest a Challenge”
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Your Next Steps
• Request access at govaccess@challenge.gov
• Let us know: E-mail, agency, are you an admin?
• Access staging: username gov / password earlyaccess
• Indentify your agency’s challenge POCs
• One or many, no special technical skills
• Departments and sub-agencies
• Get training!
• General challenges July 16; Challenge.gov July 22
• In-person training for POCs July 23
• Get your challenges onto Challenge.gov!
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