The Departments of State and Health and Human Services are piloting a new collaboration platform called Midas, designed to make it easier for individuals to find each other and take the initiative to begin working on projects of mutual interest.
GSA said the “innovation toolkit” began as a Presidential Innovation Fellows project to give federal employees a place to work on innovative ideas across government that may occur outside their normal job or management chain.
As GSA explains, Midas consists of three main components: projects (a container for discussions, events, files and participants of a given activity), opportunities (can be part of a project or a standalone need) and profiles (listing skills and interests).
GSA’s 18F technology services agency is offering Midas implementations to federal agencies as a software-as-a-service. It said any agency could test out Midas and see if it can help them crowd-source within their communities without having to wrestle with putting the technology in place to facilitate that. (The State Department has dubbed its custom implementation of Midas as “Crowdwork,” for example.)
Github: https://github.com/18f/midas
