Open Source Policymaking
Government can't do it alone. Companies are struggling. Non-profit organizations (and other groups who think and work on serious issues) need to step up. Its time we throw the doors of policymaking and solution finding to the public, and have it led by the non-profits, foundations, and others.
Q1: What are the most challenging problems facing our society that you believe the community - you, your friends, colleagues, and others - could come up with a better solution to than our government, corporations, and others have thus far?
Idea Description
I am not the first one to think of an idea like this, and there are experiments out there. I'm not even submitting an idea in hopes of winning the money -- rather, I would like to see the idea take hold and our society be the better for it. What am I talking about - open source policymaking. Solution seeking by crowdsource.
It is pretty clear that government can't do it alone. Companies are struggling. Non-profit organizations (and other groups who think and work on serious issues) need to step up. Its time we throw the doors of policymaking and solution finding to the public, and have it led by the non-profits, foundations, and others of the world.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
Launch a true open-source solution finding project focused on the common good. Teach non-profit organizations how to use new technology to engage their audience, mine for ideas, and then explore them further. Teach governments and corporations how to embrace the ideas that their audience (and the audiences of nonprofits committed to these intersts) are coming up with. I hope this would get groups out of the same old model of just trying to support their own organizational existence and instead look at tackling some of the vexing problems of our society.
Vote for it now.
I like your idea; I want to improve your odds of getting funding I will vote for your idea if you will vote for mine. My idea is for a web site that raises money for inventors and entrepreneurs called New Idea website Check out my idea blob submission and visit New Idea Website and see what I can do for you. http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/4060-NEW-IDEA-WEBSITE The need for jobs is one of the biggest problems that a democratic government faces because creating jobs is an unwanted byproduct of business and industry. The reason I say its unwanted is the more jobs a business creates the more its expenses are and the smaller it’s bottom-line. If business and industry have their way they would run their companies with no jobs at all no management or labor. To deal with this dilemma I pr…moreopose a federal venture capital carrot fund that literally pays entrepreneurs to create jobs. The investment bank would be expected invest in seed level startup projects like yours and to lose money at a specified dollar per jobs ratio for example during hard times that figure may be as high as $20,000 per job and good times the figure may be as low as five dollars per job, by controlling this ratio the fed could roughly control unemployment. The bank will be expected to fund novel products and services and stay away from things like restaurants that will simply draw jobs from other restaurants or moving factories from one part of the country to another. If you like this idea vote for it and send the congressional letter from the website. Sincerely Frank Scruggs
Great idea! But policy making is an act of power. Who will voluntarily give up power?
long overdue. w00t!
I will certainly ponder
Kudos. Non-profit have to step up.