New York City’s Mayor’s Office is calling for financial ideas and creativity as a new open government platform. The public is being asked to complete a form online and share their money saving ideas. According to the office, ideas will be reviewed by the Mayor’s staff and the best will be sent for further consideration and/or implementation. A summary of all ideas will also be posted on NYC.gov for public access.
To share your ideas visit: http://nyc.gov/html/misc/html/2010/ideas.html
What are your thoughts on this?
Cool idea although wish they would have used a UserVoice/Ideascale/Spigit type solutions so people could see other ideas submitted and vote up/down
Arizona did something similar a couple of years ago when Jan Brewer became governor. http://www.azrecovery.gov/
This is great – good to see New York City seeking out the ideas of its citizens. I agree with Steve’s point though– it would be nice to be able for others to see the ideas and vote on the ones they like the best. Perhaps this is just the first step, and the mayor’s office will eliminate responses that are implausible or not serious and allow voters to approve/disapprove and comment on the remaining ideas.