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GSA Project Gets Harvard Award
GSA’s Challenge.gov project got some props this week when it won the Innovations in American Government award from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Of the 600 applications, Challenge.gov took the prize for a platform it created in 2010 to allow entrepreneurs, innovators, and the public to compete by providing the government with novel solutions to tough problems. Since its launch, Challenge.gov has been used by 50 federal agencies to crowdsource solutions; has received 3.6 million visits; and conducted over 300 scientific, engineering, design, multimedia, ideation, and software challenges, resulting in public-private partnerships. ChallengePost CEO Brandon Kessler helped build the platform that runs Challenge.gov.
