Ideas Cloud

One of the projects that I worked on last year was to create an "Ideas Cloud" for a large corporate - allowing their customers to offer up and vote on "Ideas" that they thought would help improve their customer experience.

Now the state of California has grabbed the idea for it's citizens.

“We in Sacramento are not under the delusion that we have a monopoly on good ideas. We would like to channel the energy and enthusiasm of our citizens to help us strengthen how we build and deploy IT in the State of California."

"Let’s ‘walk the talk’ and use crowdsourcing to get a consensus on the popular ideas."

"Using the link below, I encourage you to provide ideas, review and comment on other people’s ideas, and vote ideas up and down. As the tool aggregates our judgments, certain ideas will rise to the top. I would then take the top ranking ideas and further refine them through an interactive dialogue.” said California CTO P.K. Agarwal.

Here is the link to the California "Ideas Cloud".

So tell me again why Australian state governments aren't doing this across a wide range of their services?

Perhaps they already have access to all the best ideas and don't need any new ones!