The Crowdsourcing Blog

The Guardian was reporting yesterday that one of the UK’s Government attempt at crowdsourcing has failed.

In an effort to crowdource the coallition’s programme, 9.500 entries were received but not one department took those into consideration for a change.

According to the newspaper, “its formal responses, published on each website, shows Whitehall regarded the process largely as an endorsement of what it was already doing.”

Sure, the use of crowdsourcing is not always meant to get the best of the crowd but more like to get their engagement, be it a brand or government in this case, but not acknowledging the crowd’s effort is a big no.

There are still other crowdsourcing initiatives from the UK government (one dealing with the treasury, other with laws), but this latest example doesn’t bode well for them.

Let’s see if they can turn it around and actually use the power of the crowd in an effective way.