The White House Releases an Open Innovator’s Toolkit
On the last day of his tenure as Federal Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra used the occasion to unveil an open innovator’s toolkit. It’s a highly informative, practical and supremely useful collection of open innovation guides, techniques and case studies.
It also presents a list of 20 leading practices to help spur innovation across the public sector in local, state and federal governments. These are drawn from his experience with the projects he contributed to during his two years in office.
The toolkit’s techniques for open innovation are “in and of themselves interesting and useful, but they speak to this broader movement of how we are shifting in many ways, or expanding upon the traditional policy levers of government,” said Chopra during an event hosted by the Center for American Progress earlier this month.
These techniques are based on four guiding principles:
- Government agencies must start releasing data proactively rather than waiting for people to request it.
- The government must act as an “impatient convener” through its policy of federal engagement in standards activities.
- Agencies can use challenges, prizes or competitions to spur change.
- Agencies must attract top talent.
In a best practices memo released on the same day as the toolkit, the former CTO wrote that open innovation gives people the opportunity to solve many of the problems that governments themselves are unable to.
You can visit the open innovator’s toolkit here.
You can watch a video of Chopra’s comments at the Center for American Progress here.
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