Promote prizes for socially useful web applications

We see many prizes like appsfordemocracy.org which try to promote socially useful web applications. Wikinomics has dedicated an article to it Government should fund this kind of initiatives.

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Declaration on Public Services 2.0
Procurement
Promote prizes for socially useful web applications
Delivers useful results
Low cost
Crowdsource proposal selection for public funding
Don't create large scale web 2.0 projects
Require open source licensing on all software contract work
Use IT budgets to invest in new social web applicatons
Invest heavily in usability of online public services
Invest in public education, not in tech projects
Review procurement processes
Pilot cloud computer in the Government
Standardize and universalize electronic public procurement
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