Are you listening to your citizens?
IdeaScale empowers people to drive innovation.
Collect ideas from citizens, give them a platform to vote, the most important ideas bubble to the top.
IdeaScale empowers people to drive innovation.
Collect ideas from citizens, give them a platform to vote, the most important ideas bubble to the top.
Your constituents are bombarded with numerous methods to give feedback. Let them engage you when they're most inspired - giving you the best quality ideas. Find solutions to problems before you even thought to ask.
Its not easy getting your constituents time - your busiest ones generally provide the best ideas. Encourage them to vote on the ideas they are most passionate about.
A community forms around your platform and each of its ideas. The most valuable ideas are brought forward.
"IdeaScale easily handled the large volume of traffic coming from the WhiteHouse.gov website."
-Lena Trudeau, National Academy of Public Administration
IdeaScale enables government 2.0 to build turn-key communities based on the simple model of crowdsourcing. The most effective approach to building key relationships is by turning your citizens into advocates. Empower them to speak and open a direct dialogue on your turf - instead of out in the wild.
Gone are the days where a constituent leaves feedback in a comment box, and thousands of hours are spent sorting through open ended text. With IdeaScale, a self-moderated community emerges where the best and brightest ideas are elevated to the top thus leveraging the power of your constituents in a participatory environment.
Interact directly with the community that is formed around the ideas. Leave comments and communicate the status of an idea. Build a strong relationship with your citizens by confirming that their voice is heard.
"By using the cloud, the government was able to launch IdeaScale months quicker than it would have been able to on its own."
-David McClure, General Services Administration
There are over 1,300 agencies with a total of 2.5 million employees within the federal government. IdeaScale communities let you create synergy and collaboration both internally, and beyond organizational boundaries. With single sign-on, CSS customization, and security options, IdeaScale can be tailored to integrate with any agency website. In addition, IdeaScale has been pre-approved by the US General Services Administration.
Collect collaborative feedback across your entire state at a fraction of the cost. IdeaScale opens up a simple and effective feedback community giving residents an open door to government. Multiple communities can be built at any level of government, bringing back direct democracy with a town hall style approach.
Defining a platform within an advocacy group can be time consuming and difficult. What's worse, misunderstanding your base can lead to a costly drop in donations and volunteer hours. IdeaScale keeps you in touch with the pulse of the community, ensuring your group's leadership is in step with its members at all times.
"We went from concept to reality overnight, easily collecting volumes of ideas the very next morning."
-William Hurley, OpenAustin.org
The city of Austin needed a system to collect ideas and feedback for a complate overhaul of the city's front facing technology services. IdeaScale was used to collect ideas from all over the city and engage a very large audience.
The FCC, ushering in a new area of collaboration, started by creating an IdeaScale community for its broadband initiative. Collecting ideas from all over the country, the FCC has been able to turn open ended text comments into highly structured feedback.
The Obama administration implemented IdeaScale as phase one of their new Open Government initiative. The community collected over 4,000 ideas and over 300,000 votes in just a two week time period.
