U.S. Department of Labor

1. U.S. Department of Labor DOL Innovation Through Challenge.gov

2. U.S. Department of LaborDOL Innovation Through Challenge.gov • Agenda • DOL’s Mission • Planting The Seed • Prizes: What Works & What You Will Need • Lessons Learned • Development & Execution Process • Case Studies: • Equal Pay, Disability Employment, Occupational Employment Statistics & informACTION

3. U.S. Department of LaborDOL’s Mission To foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.

4. U.S. Department of LaborPlanting The Seed • Educated leadership on power of data • Liberated our data – APIs, SDKs, Sample Code • Tied efforts to President’s Executive Order – Customer Service • Incentivized participating and rewarded champions • Showcased Return On Investment (ROI) • Kept educating, reporting and liberating.

5. U.S. Department of LaborPrizes – What Works & What You Will Need • Not all contests should have money as the primary prize, and not all prizes should be “Meet the Secretary!”. • Engage the private sector, offer a mix of contest judges and encourage a diverse evaluation panel • Research your agency’s “Gift Authority” – Products? Services? Cash? All or just some? • Develop a “Gratuitous Services Agreement Form”; you will need it

6. U.S. Department of LaborLessons Learned • Don’t be too prescriptive - flexibility is key in order to allow creativity and innovation • No such thing as “we’ve done enough outreach”. • Think like a service user, not a program manager • Secure resources – questions will be asked, action will have to be taken • Tie prizes to mission, and protect your organization

7. DOL Innovation Through Challenge.govDevelopment & Execution Phase I Ideation / Mission Development Phase II Data Gathering Phase III Partnership Building Phase IV Judges, Prizes and Lawyers Phase V Outreach Strategy Phase VI Final Review & Launch (cross fingers!) Phase VII Continuous Monitoring & Feedback Phase VIII Winners, Outreach & Sustainment

8. Equal Pay App Challenge Overview Launched May 23th 2012 Partnered with the National Equal Pay Task Force, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission & Department of Justice Supported by Ning, Google, Bit.ly, Daily Muse, Women Innovate Mobile, Catalyst & others. First ever equal pay related challenge of its kind in the federal government

9. Equal Pay App ChallengeApp Spotlight: Demand Equal Pay for Women

10. Disability EmploymentApp Challenge Overview Launched May 23th 2012 Partnered with the U.S. Department of Education & Social Security Administration Supported by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, IBM, and ATIA First ever disability-related app challenge of its kind in the federal government

11. Disability Employment App ChallengeApp Spotlight: Access Jobs • Access Jobs is a job search portal specifically designed for job seekers with disabilities. • The website implements usable accessibility techniques, such as responsive design, which allows the website to be experienced in the same way across all platforms. • The website can also be plugged into an existing accessibility resource, such as http://www.disability.gov/, without having to create and maintain a separate widget. • Employers who want their job postings to appear on the Access Jobs website do not have to re-post their jobs. They can submit their domain name and add a few lines of code to their existing job postings. • The Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) will ensure that existing job postings are searchable.

12. Occupational Employment StatisticsApp Challenge Overview Launched July 14th 2011 Partnered with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Supported by the Office of the Chief Economist & Bureau of Labor Statistics First ever economic data-visualization app challenge of its kind in the federal government

13. Occupational Employment Statistics ChallengeApp Spotlight: Where Are They Jobs? • Allows users to interactively explore the salary and job statistics for various occupations at national, state and regional levels • Users can choose an occupation and explore the job market for that occupation, or they can start with a state or region and explore the top occupations within it • Provides context for the user by highlighting the geographic area, plotting the information on a graph for easy comparison and allowing the users to sort either by number of jobs or by salary • Provides information about the top industries providing employment in a given occupation

14. informACTIONApp Challenge Overview Launched July 14th 2011 Partnered with Wage & Hour, Occupational Safety & Health Supported by Google, GitHub, and many others First ever enforcement-related app challenge of its kind in the federal government

15. informACTION ChallengeApp Spotlight: Eat, Shop, Sleep • Looking for a popular restaurant nearby? A hotel without code violations to stay at? Eat Sleep Shop for your iPhone/iPad can help. Search for places to eat, shop & sleep and then read customer reviews as well as health, safety & labor highlights • iPhone/iPad accessible • Search restaurants, shops, and hotels near you  • Access hotel/motel, restaurant and retail industry enforcement data and easily identify violators • Narrow your results by industry, health/labor violations, name search  • Look up addresses and phone numbers for thousands of businesses • DOL data is mixed with Yelp to check reviews of establishments with findings