CrowdOutAIDS: Crowdsourcing a Solution

When Iceland crowdsourced its new constitution to increase the transparency and legitimacy of government process, it inspired a group of people working at UNAIDS to explore a similar approach to its work with young people...The idea to openly invite young people from across the world, reaching a broad group to collaborate for new ideas, new energy and new partnerships was attractive, given the size of the challenge...

...In response, policies are made and programmes put in place “for” young people. But young people rarely have a say. CrowdOutAIDS.org, UNAIDS new crowdsourcing project, turns that model on its head: it’s an online collaboration to rebuild the organization’s approach to HIV and young people from the bottom up. Through it, we want to find new ways to work with young people, across borders, for a shift on AIDS....