Officials encourage agencies to look far and wide for innovation
Great ideas can come from unexpected sources, from an ordinary citizen responding to a crowd-sourcing initiative to a chance encounter with an employee in the elevator, leaders say.
There are hidden pockets of innovation nationwide and the federal government must tap into them, federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra told an audience of agency managers at a Washington conference Tuesday.
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