Improving Government Services is About to Get Simpl

Posted by: Scott Johnson, Co-Founder and Principal Jul 02, 2010 0 Comments

Are you an innovative thinker with an idea to improve the services that government provides? Or maybe you’re a government new media pro with thoughts on how the public sector can save money, get citizens more involved, or make the most of new technology? Either way, you can look forward to a new portal that will help turn ideas into action.

Rock Creek is delighted to be collaborating with government new media consultancy and social innovation incubator FutureGov in the creation of Simpl, the Social Innovation MarketPlace. Scheduled to launch this fall, the site will aim to “connect people with good ideas for radical social change with people in the public sector who want to do things differently.”

Simpl will give innovators the opportunity to post their ideas and projects and to outline what they think it’ll take to bring those ideas to life. Similarly, it will allow those in the public sector to bid on those ideas with cash or other resources (like office space, mentoring, or even access to capital or talent) as well as to pinpoint problems that they are interested in solving. FutureGov has some additional info, including a SlideShare presentation with site screenshots we developed, available on their blog.

Initial reaction to the idea has been overwhelmingly positive. What do you think? Drop me a note directly, or even better, leave a comment on this post.

Scott Johnson

Co-Founder and Principal

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