A new month, a new carnival edition. The 3th Edition of the Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing carnival focuses on Government 2.0, an application field in which crowdsourcing has an enormous potential. Let’s have a look at 5 excellent articles on the subject.

1. E-Governement: Crowdsourcing discusses an interesting report of the UK Cabinet Office. The article states that engaging with user-generated sites and data mashers can help governments deliver better services, and help citizens to help themselves.
2. Wikinomics and Government talks about the application of a Wikinomics-like model of collaboration in government services, and public – private partnerships.
3. British Citizen Engagement: A few weeks ago the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office opened an online forum where citizens can contribute their thoughts on the government’s foreign policy priorities. Several hundred comments have been posted to date.
4. Government 2.0 Arrives In Ottawa: Mike Kujawski’s blog offering insights on government, association and non-profit marketing in the web 2.0 world, discussing this year’s GTEC conference coming up in October (with Don Tapscott as keynote speaker).
5. Wiki Government: New Zealand police has created a new wiki to get insights from the public for a new Policing Act which will be presented to the country’s parliament. The wiki is available for anyone to edit and is part of an ongoing public review of proposed changes to the act.

Next edition

As of now you can submit your blog articles to the next edition of Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing! Use the carnival submission form, or send an email to carnival@openinnovators.net.

Subject of Edition 4: Online Collaboration Tools.
Release date: November 1, 2007

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The second edition of the new Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing carnival has just been published. As of now and starting with the next, each edition will cover a much more specific subject. I think this is a better way to organize articles around important topics and to recognize other bloggers’ efforts, in order to function as a relevant online “magazine”.

The next edition will be about Government 2.0: how can governments and societies benefit from crowdsourcing, user-generated content, mash-ups…? Take some time to write an insightful article, put it on your blog (or perhaps you already wrote one), and submit it for inclusion in the carnival before September 30… As crowdsourcing offers a lot of opportunities to the public sector, I am really looking forward to reading your articles on this subject! Any topic suggestions for future editions?