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“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is a success” – Henry Ford. 

Subscribed members of the Solving Together community already know how we crowdsource to gather input from thousands of people from diverse perspectives.  You may have been involved in previous crowdsourcing challenges and saw the fantastic responses that were shared on the platform. We’re keen to invite others to take part and are asking for your help in growing our membership by sharing this information across your networks with people who may not yet be involved or know about Solving Together. Please encourage them to sign up.to become part of the Solving Together community.

Crowdsourcing enables people with different expertise and experience to come together, in an online space, and offer suggestions and solutions to current challenges. Using a crowdsourcing platform means that you can set up a variety of ‘challenges’ around themes relevant to your issue or campaign. It’s a diverse and inclusive process: people can post an idea or feedback on someone else’s idea at any time day or night during the campaign. The ability for people to vote on ideas on the platform helps rank and refine contributions, meaning the community’s collaborative effort help shape the next steps, rather than the traditional small group of senior decision makers. Every comment is read and responded too.  

Bev Matthews, Solving Together’s Programme Director tells us more about Solving Together in this clip from the Agents Assemble podcast.

After the crowdsourcing closes, ideas and suggestions then move through the stages of the Solving Together Roadmap to be themed and tested before being implemented to improve services. You can read about three big ideas which were developed following this process for Elective Care Recovery. 

This animation video explains more about how crowdsourcing works – and how crowdsourcing can create real change, rapidly, by generating ideas from the community.