Obama's plan to build one common federal government-wide online platform

[eridani]

Sounds like a good idea to me.

http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/building-one-contest-platform-diverse-government

Federal News Radio has more on the Obama administration's plan to build one common federal government-wide online platform that agencies can use to host the contests and challenges that President Obama has called on them to launch.

It's being called the Innovation Challenge Platform, and it is in the process of being built on top of the software built by Challenge Post, a New York City-based startup.

In an interview with Federal News Radio, the General Services Administration's Bev Godwin talks about why it makes sense for her office to provide contest software government-wide, so that those who want to do in government have tools that they know have already gotten a general seal of approval from the federal government's internal administrators: