Show Us a Better Way

= UK project for policy Co-Creation

URL = http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/

Description

"Show Us a Better Way is a government sponsored mashup contest, inviting members of the public to submit public data mashup ideas for funding." (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/government_mashup.php)

Discussion

Marshall Kirkpatrick:

"In the 20th century, during industrialization's heyday, big public goals made sense. Today, in an era transformed by technology empowering the individual like few things ever have before, questions for which the answers are already known may prove less valuable than open-ended inquiries with substantial institutional support.

The UK government's Show Us a Better Way project, while tiny in comparison, represents a new era of thought leadership. The government is offering to expose public data to developers without presuming to know what could be done with it. "Here's what we've got, what can you do with it?" is a great question to ask. We would love to see Show Us a Better Way get the kind of financial support that McCain is proposing for the battery project. The resulting application development could radically improve human quality of life in more ways than can be imagined." (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/government_mashup.php)