---
id: "worksheets:exercise/why-engage"
type: "Solving Public Problems worksheet"
title: "Why Engage?"
url: "https://worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org/exercise/why-engage"
date: "2024-07-11"
summary: "You will need to define whom you want to participate in your project, considering what input they can provide to help you better define or solve the problem."
source: "Solving Public Problems worksheets (worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org), The GovLab and the Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Why Engage?

Exercise group: Developing Solutions with Collective Intelligence · Recommended exercise

## About this worksheet

You will need to define whom you want to participate in your project, considering what input they can provide to help you better define or solve the problem.

## Questions

1. Do you need to access domain experts with detailed knowledge of a specific field?
2. Or do you need to get a better insight into the problem by getting input from people with the lived experience of it?
3. Do you need to engage stakeholders in other agencies or in the wider public who may have important information?
4. And are there eligibility criteria such as age or location or other qualifications that will help you to target the people you most need to hear from?
5. Do not forget that you can use open innovation with your own colleagues across agencies as well as with local residents and global citizens. The sky’s the limit!

## PDF version

https://directus.theburnescenter.org/assets/1eb462b4-93cd-43f5-ac52-c69076756acd

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Original page: https://worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org/exercise/why-engage · Licence: none stated