This attractive offer just in from the General Services Administration.
The agency is seeking the nation’s “best and brightest” techies to essentially volunteer to solve any number of government IT shortcomings, not least of which is its lack of transparency, under the guise of a fun competition!
The “Hack-a-thon” day-long challenge on May 8 invites private citizens to develop new (“innovative!”) solutions using GSA data that can then be replicated across the federal government.
And if your idea wins? You’ll get a hearty thank you and at most $1,000 — and then will hand over all rights to your idea to the government.
The winners grant “GSA a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use any and all intellectual property to the winning entry for any governmental purpose …,” according to the rules of the game. Oh, and you also assume all liability if anything goes terribly wrong (“death, bodily injury, property damage …”) and waive any claims against the federal government (for “injury, death, damage, or loss of property, revenue, or profits …”).
But at least you get bragging rights that the government is using your idea to make its data better?
Actually … participants cannot promote the GSA’s use of their work, so as to not imply that the GSA is endorsing their services.
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