It’s OK to fail 🤯
Let’s start sharing local government failures so we can learn from them.
For the last year, we’ve been on a mission to catalogue local government innovation wherever it’s happening — and we’ve learned a lot along the way.
Perhaps most surprising is how rarely local governments share information related to failed projects or initiatives.
No one wants to talk about failure. But failure is something that we should embrace (read here, here and here) and actively share with each other. How else are we going to collectively learn from these failures?
The ability to share project failures is critical in the public sector.
You’re working hard to cut costs, work more efficiently, and improve services for your community. And we think you should have easier access to the information and tools needed to accomplish this.
That’s why we’ve released a new way to share those projects or initiatives that may have missed the mark.
Govlaunch allows you to share your projects — what your government has done or what’s in the works — now with a quick way to indicate if the project was successful or not.
- 🗣 Privately share failed projects with a community of your peers — or opt to publicly share with them your constituents
- 💁 Present and discuss failed projects or initiatives in a safe and productive way with a community of like-minded innovators
- 🔍 Search for projects you’re interested in to review how it has or hasn’t worked in other similar communities
Our hope is to encourage more sharing of failure in a free and open community platform of local government innovators.
So let’s learn from what didn’t work and make failure more productive for everyone. 💡
Join us!
We’re building a wiki for local government innovation — a free and open platform where you can share what you’re working on and find out what your peers are working on too.
- Join our free community
- Discover innovation projects
- Learn how Govlaunch works
- Contact us with questions or feedback!
