The Center's mission is to leverage technology to solve public problems and design modern governance. The Center seeks to become a global leader in advancing the research and practice of policy informatics to address complex public issues. The Center advances its mission and vision by engaging in a variety of interdisciplinary and cross-sector research activities that focus on four categories of policy informatics - societal change, policy analysis, design interventions, and field building - that transcend contexts, including health, education, environment, and governance.

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Articles

Immersive Policy Learning: An Interactive Course Experiment

Tanya M. Kelley, Erik W. Johnston

Category Labs and Experimentation Gamification
Methodology Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective Legitimacy

Type journal-article

Region United States

Sector Policy Education

Design Principles for Engaging and Retaining Virtual Citizen Scientists

Dara M. Wald, Justin Longo, A. R. Dobell

Category Citizen Engagement and Crowdsourcing Citizen Science Design Thinking
Methodology Case Studies Surveys
Objective Effectiveness Participation

Type journal-article

Sector Environment

Crowdsourcing civility: A natural experiment examining the effects of distributed moderation in online forums

Cliff Lampe, Paul Zube, Jusil Lee, Chul Hyun Park, Erik Johnston

Category Citizen Engagement and Crowdsourcing Distributed Governance
Methodology Case Studies Quantitative Analysis Qualitative Analysis
Objective Participation

Type journal-article

Sector Internet Governance

Discovering the Appropriate Role of Serious Games in the Design of Open Governance Platforms

Tanya M. Kelley, Erik Johnston

Category Behavioral Sciences and Nudges Citizen Engagement and Collective Intelligence Citizen Engagement and Crowdsourcing Civic Technology Co-Creation Collective Intelligence Design Thinking Distributed Governance Gamification Labs and Experimentation Prizes and Challenges
Methodology Design Science User Studies
Objective Access Effectiveness Legitimacy Outside Innovation Participation

Type journal-article

Sector Education Internet Governance Social Movements and Activism

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GitHub use in public administration in Canada: Early experience with a new open collaboration tool

Justin Longo, Tanya M. Kelley

Category Civic Technology Co-Creation Collective Intelligence Distributed Governance
Methodology Case Studies Qualitative Analysis User Studies
Objective Access Effectiveness Participation Transparency

Type journal-article

Region Canada

Sector Internet Governance

Tools GitHub

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Use of GitHub as a Platform for Open Collaboration on Text Documents

Justin Longo, Tanya M. Kelley

Category Civic Technology Collective Intelligence Design Thinking Distributed Governance Institutional Innovation
Methodology Case Studies Qualitative Analysis User Studies
Objective Access Effectiveness Participation Transparency

Type conference-proceedings

Sector Internet Governance

Tools GitHub