The Secretary’s Special Advisor for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies has gone public with the Diplomacy Lab, their program for crowdsourcing macro-work from universities. This is in contrast to VSFS which is more focused on micro-tasking and shorter term projects. http://www.state.gov/vsfs/ http://vsfs.sparked.com/ eDiplomacy and SACSED presented an ignite on VSFS and Diplomacy Lab at last Friday’s Tech@State (about half way through) http://livestre.am/4FsP0 (I also highly recommend John Maeda’s presentation – he’s the president of the Rhode Island school of […]

Tags: crowdsourcing, Department of State, Ignite, Tech@State, Virtual Student Foreign Service