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Open-Source or Crowd-Source Initiatives
In accordance to the TED Talk, a crowd-source initiative is one that can be delineated as an enterprise attaining required services, conceptions, or content by beseeching and petitioning contributions from large crowds and sets of individuals, and particularly from the online community, instead of the conventional personnel or suppliers. In other words, crowdsourcing brings together the endeavors of several individuals taking initiative to bring resolve to small pieces that make up a larger puzzle. Crowdsourcing outlines the muscle that comes off in numbers (Noveck, 2015). The following segment will outline and discuss the manner in which a federal product, specifically Medicare and Social Security, can be transformed into a crowdsourcing initiative.
Some of the key products being provided or rendered by the Federal government include social security and Medicare. These particular products can be transformed into crowd-sourced initiatives. For starters, in recent periods, there have been several instances of fraud with regard to Medicare services, and crowd-sourcing can serve as a solution for ensuring that these health insurance programs do not lose any money. In this particular mechanism, an online platform or community can be created for alerts or complaints, regarding any fraud detected in handling and dissemination of these health insurance programs. This will act as a distributed...
The way in which the mechanism will function is the provision of a website where individuals can provide information regarding certain organizations or individuals who are committing fraud such as overpricing individuals. The online community can let such individuals give their collective effort, and choose to provide their personal information or be anonymous in this case. This crowdsourcing initiative will take the information and awareness of this group of individuals to generate mutual benefit. On one hand, the federal government will benefit from the ascertainment that its products and funds are being properly utilized. On the other hand, the general public will benefit from the fact that more and more individuals will attain social security and enjoy health care insurance.
In addition, the federal product can be altered into a crowdsourcing initiative by gathering the efforts and voices of individuals to ensure that there are no federal cuts on social security and healthcare insurance programs. In recent periods, there has been great discussions and debates as to whether the government ought to undertake spending cuts on Medicare as well as Social Security. This crowdsourcing initiative will serve as a…
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