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Crowdsourcing on Tap for Oakland County, Mich.’s Budget Decisions

February 15, 2011 /

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"Since we are using social media in so many different ways here, we thought … what is the next wave of how we engage our citizens in the process?" said Phil Bertolini, Oakland County’s deputy county executive and CIO. "In a focus group, you put 20 people in a room, you ask the idea and you get 20 opinions. If you use crowdsourcing, you put out an idea and you get thousands of opinions. More minds and more ideas make for a better product."

Full Story: http://www.govtech.com/e-government/Crowdsourcing-Oakland-County-Budget-021411.html

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