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How can data be used to increase public safety and reduce incarceration?
What is the social and economic value of open data for developing economies?
How can you leverage government data to create a knowledge base for solving problems?
Responsible Data for Children provides guidance, tools and leadership to support the responsible handling of data for and about children.
Analysis on the collection, production, and exchange of data and business insights between urban collaborators support economic development in Downtown Brooklyn.
How to make open government data more relevant, accessible, and actionable?
How can we leverage data collaboratives to make urban transportation planning more gender-inclusive?
How can privately held data be shared responsibly for social good through cross sector collaboration?
How can the potential value of privately held data be unlocked and used for public good?
Contracts for Data Collaboration (C4DC) seeks to strengthen trust, transparency, and accountability of cross-sector data collaboratives by demystifying the complexity of data sharing agreements.
Accelerating the responsible and ethical use of non-traditional data sources and methods to support migration policy on the global, national, and local levels
How can we facilitate the exchange of thought and research around open government?
How to make accessible insights on solving public problems?
#Data4COVID19 is a series of projects to identify, collect, and analyze the value data can provide to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Data Assembly is an initiative to solicit diverse, actionable public input on data re-use for crisis response in the United States.
The Open Data Policy Lab supports decision-makers at the local, state and national levels as they accelerate the responsible re-use and opening of data for the benefit of society and the equitable spread of economic opportunity.
Curated findings and actionable knowledge at the intersection of technology, innovation, and governance
What enables online groups to become sustainable and meaningful communities, and what are the characteristics of the community leaders that create and support them?
The AI Ethics: Global Perspectives course brings together leading experts in the field of AI from around the world to consider the ethical ramifications of AI and rectify initiatives that might be harmful to particular people and groups in society.
How can we use blockchain technology for social good?
How Might Blockchain Technologies Impact the Governance of Natural Resource Extraction?
City Challenges is a process to help cities and their communities collaborate to develop innovative and implementable solutions to pressing urban problems.
12-month pilot which took place in the Municipality of San Pedro Garza García, Mexico, designed to evaluate a replicable process for Latin American cities to solve social problems more quickly and effectively.
The Multi-City Challenge is a process by which cities pool expertise from their residents to discover and implement innovative solutions to contemporary urban problems.
The Multi-City Challenge is a process by which cities pool expertise from their residents to discover and implement innovative solutions to contemporary urban problems.
As more people move into urban areas, cities face growing challenges from road congestion and pollution to public health and inequality. The Multi-City Challenge is a process by which cities pool expertise from their residents to discover and implement innovative solutions to contemporary urban problems/
Develop recommendations on how to use crowdlaw to improve the quality of lawmaking. We want to explore when and under what circumstances engagement can result in lawmaking that is either more legitimate, more effective or both.
Open Policymaking: making more effective and legitimate policy by tapping collective intelligence
GovLab received a grant from The Democracy Fund to study citizen engagement for Congress and create a Crowdlaw Playbook for Congress and teach citizen engagement techniques to Members.
How can institutions use technology to solve problems with groups?
Explored innovative and practical ways to address the causes of mosquito-borne diseases in 4 Latin American countries in 2016.
Worked with the Mexican government, civil society and over 100 global experts in the summer of 2017 to devise solutions to the problem of corruption in Mexico.
How can targeted crowdsourcing help the City of Quito, Ecuador get smarter about how to prepare for a likely volcano eruption?
Unless we define the questions well to unlock the potential of data and data science, how can we provide answers that matter?
Exploring innovative practices that can improve our ability to measure non-academic success effectively and equitably
Explored innovations in experiential learning across domains and sectors in support of Northeastern University.
Explored how Congress can leverage evidence-based lawmaking practices to craft better laws and policies.
Identified solutions that philanthropy could support in order to counter efforts to undermine or cast doubt upon the integrity of U.S. elections.
Exploring how AI can accelerate and improve the Smarter Crowdsourcing process to enable us to solve public problems more rapidly.
How to catalyze more governance innovators and policy entrepreneurs?
How to empower civic & policy entrepreneurs to develop impactful real-word projects?
How could public decision-making improve if institutions knew how to leverage citizens’ and civil servants’ expertise?
Solving Public Problems with Data examines how data can be used to improve decision-making and problem solving in the public sector through a series of online lectures by leading experts from the Governance Lab.
A comprehensive 10-module course in Spanish and English to train public officials on how to use new technologies to improve the judicial system.
A free, online program to train public entrepreneurs to use innovative methods, including design thinking, evidence-based decisionmaking and collective intelligence, to solve public problems.
Beth Simone Noveck is leading a research project with an aim to measure current knowledge and use of innovative skills by local government leaders in the United States.
This twelve-part program trains participants in the equitable innovation skills needed to become more effective and legitimate change makers.
AI Localism is a series of projects examining the actions taken by local decision-makers to address the use of AI within a city or community.
How can crowdsourcing and open data be used to gain better information about companies?
How can universities tap into the knowledge and skills that exist in their diverse communities?
How can we give decision-makers the information necessary to develop impactful crowdsourcing initiatives?
How to obtain more usable data about the nonprofit sector and whether open data can improve the performance of nonprofits
Can we accelerate innovation in government by making expertise of individuals searchable?
Can targeting opportunities to participate in regulatory reviews of medical devices based on skills and experience improve efficacy?
How to connect a public institution to data science expertise inside and outside the institution
How to develop an open map of the field of Internet Governance through crowdsourcing?
How to leverage cross-sector data-sharing to improve the lives of children?
How can we leverage private social media data for public good?
