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Explored innovative and practical ways to address the causes of mosquito-borne diseases in 4 Latin American countries in 2016.
Description
In response, the Governance Lab and the Inter-American Development Bank in partnership with the Governments of the City of Rio de Janeiro, Argentina, Colombia and Panama, hosted a series of online conferences from August-October 2016. Instead of a handful of people meeting once at great expense in a conference room, we used the Internet to mobilize and curate diverse and distributed expertise -- both credentialed know-how and experiential wisdom -- to identify, design and iterate upon implementable ideas that governments can use. Conference topics included:
Results & Impact
The Smarter Crowdsourcing team conducted a series of interviews and research into the ideas that were generated during the conferences, identifying their costs and benefits, the steps required for implementation, and the key strategic decisions that governments would need to make along the way. The team’s findings were combined into an Implementation Report, which consists of twenty initiatives selected for their importance and potential impact as well as their suitability for immediate implementation. The Implementation Report is designed to enable public authorities to translate these new ideas into practical improvements in the way they deliver policies and services.
