New York City is harnessing the power of employee-based collaborative filtering to solicit new ways to save money. The city has set up what is in effect a virtual suggestion box, called IdeaMarket. Eventually all 300,000 of the city’s employees will be able to give the city their ideas about how to improve operations. Even in an early pilot stage with a small number of employees, the project has already generated some potential money-saving ideas. The service is valuable in that opens up communications across different levels of government, which traditionally has been difficult to enact.”]
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