The GovLab’s mission is to improve people’s lives by changing the way we govern. Its goal is to strengthen the ability of institutions – including but not limited to governments – and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems.

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The GovLab believes that increased availability and use of data, new ways to leverage the capacity, intelligence, and expertise of people in the problem-solving process, combined with new advances in technology and science, can transform governance. Their team approach each challenge and opportunity in an interdisciplinary and collaborative way, irrespective of the problem, sector, geography and level of government. The GovLab develops and tests prototypes for new platforms to enable open and collaborative problem-solving inside a variety of organizations. The organization assesses and disseminates information and analysis about governance innovations successes and failures globally and their impact on people’s lives. Its team trains entrepreneurs to tackle public interest challenges using open innovation to take projects from idea to implementation.

Articles

Reimagining Governance in Practice: Benchmarking British Columbia’s Citizen Engagement Efforts

Andrew Young, Christina Rogawski, Sabeel Rahman, Stefaan Verhulst

Category Citizen Engagement and Crowdsourcing Open Data
Methodology Comparative Analysis Survey
Objective Access Effectiveness Legitimacy Participation

Type research-report

Region Canada

The Open Data Era in Health and Social Care

Stefaan Verhulst, Beth Simone Noveck, Robyn Caplan, Kristy Brown, Claudia Paz

Category Open Data
Methodology Conceptual Framework
Objective Access Legitimacy Participation

Type white-paper

Region United Kingdom

Sector Health

Open Data: A 21st Century Asset for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Stefaan Verhulst, Robyn Caplan

Category Open Data
Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness

Type research-report

Region United States

Sector Business

Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing

Beth Simone Noveck

Category Expert Networking
Methodology Conceptual Framework Comparative Analysis
Objective Effectiveness

Type book

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Innovations in Global Governance: Towards a Distributed Internet Governance Ecosystem

Stefaan Verhulst, Beth Simone Noveck, Jillian Raines, Antony Declercq

Category Citizen Engagement and Crowdsourcing Expert Networking
Methodology Conceptual Framework
Objective Access Effectiveness Legitimacy Participation

Type white-paper

Toward Metrics for Re(imagining) Governance: The Promise and Challenge of Evaluating Innovations in How We Govern

Aleise Barnett, David Dembo, Stefaan Verhulst

Category Labs and Experimentation
Methodology Conceptual Framework
Objective Effectiveness

Type white-paper

Open Data Impact: When Demand and Supply Meet – Key Findings of the Open Data Impact Case Studies

Stefaan Verhulst, Andrew Young

Category Open Data
Methodology Case Studies Conceptual Framework
Objective Effectiveness Legitimacy Outside Innovation

Type research-report

Mapping and Comparing Responsible Data Approaches

Jos Berens, Ulrich Mans, Stefaan Verhulst

Category Data Analysis Open Data Data Collaboratives
Methodology Conceptual Framework Comparative Analysis
Objective Legitimacy Privacy

Type research-report

Sector Crisis Response Development Human Rights