Scouts are Listening to the Crowd
Canada’s leading youth organisation with more than 100,000 members is turning to crowdsourcing to deepen engagement with, and enhance the innovation of its community.
Scouts Canada has teamed up with Ottawa-based IdeaVibes to launch a crowdsourcing platform called myscouts Innovation for new programs, and for novel ideas and concepts that will influence the organisation’s future direction.
Generating Ideas
Members are able to post ideas in several categories and their colleagues can comment and vote on them. They can also be shared through Facebook and Twitter to reach a wider audience and perhaps gain further support.
“A major part of Scouts Canada’s technology strategy was to develop an association management tool that would better enable us to manage our membership information, ease registration and share information with our audiences,” said Adam Benson, Scouts Canada Deputy National Commissioner for Technology.
“Now that we have that tool in place, we want to ensure we are making enhancements that suit the needs of our members myscouts Innovation is a way for youth, parents, leaders and other stakeholders to directly influence our development path while still maintaining our organizational goals.”
Making Technology Work for Scouts
Scout leaders believe the platform is an ideal way to tap into the energy, enthusiasm and expertise of the crowd to sustain and grow the scouting experience.
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