Obama embraces co-creation and crowd sourcing: what we define as enviro-creation

Obama embraces crowdsourcing and the principles of what we define as enviro-creation

Some of his citizen crowdsourcing ideas include:

White House Open for questions: an interactive question and answer session with the President.

Recovery.org dialogue: a crowd-sourcing process designed to tap the IT community for ideas for implementing Recovery.gov.

Open Government Directive collaboration: a collaborative policy-writing process to openly develop a draft of the Open Government policy.

Data.gov: a web portal providing access to Federal government data sets.

Putting citizens at the heart of the decision making process is the way forward.

We need to learn from Obama - because in the UK institutions and the government are so un-trusted. The Government, public policy makers and institutions need to re-build the bridge between them and the public - a great starting point is to place the public within the heart of the decision making process. For more on this and how you can do it see http://www.envirocreation.blogspot.com/