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==Projects==
==Projects==

=== The GovLab Academy ===
Through workshops, classes, and coaching, the Academy engages participants and graduate students across disciplines and universities to design, build and implement collaborative governance platforms. Through a hands-on, personalized, project-based learning model, the Academy seeks to provide participants with mindset and skill-set required to tackle hard public problems and institutional challenges around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nycroadmap.us|title=The People's Roadmap to a Digital New York City {{!}} BetaNYC|website=nycroadmap.us|access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref> The programs are fully online and for small groups, usually just ten projects per program, with participants and teams often from inside government institutions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://technical.ly/brooklyn/2015/02/25/govlab-coaching-programs-apply/|title=Working on a civic tech project? Apply to GovLab's 'coaching programs' for help - Technical.ly Brooklyn|website=Technical.ly Brooklyn|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref>

====== Agile Networks of Expertise ======
To help the government of Ecuador prepare for the imminent eruption of volcano [[Cotopaxi]], in October and November 2015, the GovLab Academy held a dozen online meetings, each themed around a different aspect of disaster preparation, such as sheltering strategies or maintaining access to health services.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://thrivingexchange.org/dont-know-where-to-go-when-the-volcano-blows-crowdsource-it/|title=In the shadow of a rumbling volcano, Quito, Ecuador solicits just-in-time advice from the world's disaster experts|last=Johnson|first=Anne Francis|date=|work=|access-date=|via=}}</ref> By tapping into a network of researchers and practitioners, they recruited experts from around the world to share best practices about technology-enabled ways to prepare for the coming natural disaster. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://citiscope.org/story/2016/cotopaxi-awakens-quito-and-its-suburbs-get-ready-volcanic-eruption#sthash.DwVMCfrN.sXd3epXh.dpuf|title=As Cotopaxi awakens, Quito and its suburbs get ready for a volcanic eruption {{!}} Citiscope|website=citiscope.org|access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref>

===MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance===
===MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance===


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  • Comment: Still not enough in-depth third-party sources overall to suggest solid independent notability. SwisterTwister talk 05:47, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

The GovLab is an action research center based at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.[1] It designs more open, effective and networked institutions to improve the quality of people's lives.[2] Through extended, multidisciplinary investigation, the GovLab helps institutions work more openly and collaboratively by harnessing the power of the crowd in problem solving and incorporating the latest practices and innovations in data and technology.[3] Much of the GovLab’s work involves connecting government to expertise outside government, including among the citizenry and in the private sector.[4] It was founded by Beth Simone Noveck and Stefaan Verhulst in 2012. [5][6]

The GovLab
Formation2012 (12 years ago)
TypeAcademic
PurposeInnovation
Headquarters2 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, 11201, US
Location
  • Brooklyn, New York
Founders
Beth Simone Noveck & Stefaan Verhulst
WebsiteThe GovLab Official Website

Projects

The GovLab Academy

Through workshops, classes, and coaching, the Academy engages participants and graduate students across disciplines and universities to design, build and implement collaborative governance platforms. Through a hands-on, personalized, project-based learning model, the Academy seeks to provide participants with mindset and skill-set required to tackle hard public problems and institutional challenges around the world.[7] The programs are fully online and for small groups, usually just ten projects per program, with participants and teams often from inside government institutions.[8]

Agile Networks of Expertise

To help the government of Ecuador prepare for the imminent eruption of volcano Cotopaxi, in October and November 2015, the GovLab Academy held a dozen online meetings, each themed around a different aspect of disaster preparation, such as sheltering strategies or maintaining access to health services.[9] By tapping into a network of researchers and practitioners, they recruited experts from around the world to share best practices about technology-enabled ways to prepare for the coming natural disaster. [10]

MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance

The GovLab chairs the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance a collaborative group of interdisciplinary experts, in fields like computer science, management science, social psychology and law, that studies data-driven and collaboration-based methods to enhance decision-making in the public interest.[11][12]

Network of Innovators

The GovLab and MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance have developed and launched the Network of Innovators (NoI); an expert skill-sharing network for government & civic innovators. NoI makes searchable the know-how of innovators on topics ranging from opening up data, developing prize-backed challenges and use of crowdsourcing for public good. Platform users answer questions about their skills and experiences, creating a profile that enables them to be matched to those with complementary knowledge to enable mutual support and learning.[13]

HHS Profiles

The GovLab and its MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance work with the United States Food and Drug Administration in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to improve and speed the review of medical devices. The project – HHS Profiles – tests the effectiveness of technology (Harvard Catalyst Profiles) to target opportunities to participate in the regulatory review of medical devices to those with expert knowledge of the device in question. The project is funded by the General Services Administration through The Great Pitch investment contest.[14]

Open Data

The GovLab studies the real-world impacts of open data across across a number of initiatives.

Open Data 500

The Open Data 500 study is the first index of US companies using open government data as an key business resource to generate business and develop products. [15]It consists of a list of more than 500 companies that include “data-focused startups” and large web companies like Apple, Google and Yahoo and others like IBM and Bain.[16] The study project aspires to “identify, describe, and analyze” these companies in order to better understand how open data can better serve companies.[17] As part of the study, the GovLab convened a series of Open Data Roundtable events to directly connect business leaders and entrepreneurs with government officials in order to maximize the value of open data for the public.[18]

Open Data's Impact

Working with Omidyar Network, the GovLab studied how open data is creating a number of real-world impacts around the world.[19][20] The study examines cases where the accessibility of data is helping to improve government, empower citizens, create economic opportunity and solve public problems. They stretch across sectors, including health, education, philanthropy and politics and elections.[21]

Open Data Era in Health and Social Care

The GovLab also partnered with the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) to create an open data blueprint for the NHS.[22] The report examines the open data activities of the NHS to date, and provides guidance on next steps for the agency as it looks to improve patient care through making its non-personally identifiable data more accessible.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Press Releases | New Delhi, India - Embassy of the United States". newdelhi.usembassy.gov. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  2. ^ "The People's Roadmap to a Digital New York City | BetaNYC". nycroadmap.us. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  3. ^ Kreiss, Daniel (2015-07-01). "The Problem of Citizens: E-Democracy for Actually Existing Democracy". Social Media + Society. 1 (2): 2056305115616151. doi:10.1177/2056305115616151. ISSN 2056-3051.
  4. ^ "Putting Government Data to Work: A New Report From The GovLab Outlines Private Sector Recommendations for Improving Commerce Department Data Management". Department of Commerce. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  5. ^ "Twitter Chair Jack Dorsey and UN Representative Samantha Power to Speak at NDI 30th Anniversary Democracy Dinner Honoring Civic Innovators | NDI". www.ndi.org. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  6. ^ Verhulst, Stefaan. "Stefaan Verhulst". World Bank Blogs. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  7. ^ "The People's Roadmap to a Digital New York City | BetaNYC". nycroadmap.us. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  8. ^ "Working on a civic tech project? Apply to GovLab's 'coaching programs' for help - Technical.ly Brooklyn". Technical.ly Brooklyn. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  9. ^ Johnson, Anne Francis. "In the shadow of a rumbling volcano, Quito, Ecuador solicits just-in-time advice from the world's disaster experts".
  10. ^ "As Cotopaxi awakens, Quito and its suburbs get ready for a volcanic eruption | Citiscope". citiscope.org. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  11. ^ Hickey, Kathleen (2 April 2014). "Public interest labs to test open governance solutions". gcn.com. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  12. ^ "FACT SHEET: Administration Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary of Challenge.gov with Launch of More than 20 New Public- and Private-Sector Prizes". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  13. ^ White House Office of the Press Secretary (7 October 2015). "FACT SHEET: Administration Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary of Challenge.gov with Launch of More than 20 New Public- and Private-Sector Prizes". WhiteHouse.gov. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  14. ^ "How the FDA aims to speed review of medical devices -- GCN". gcn.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  15. ^ "Open Data 500: Proof that open data fuels economic activity - TechRepublic". TechRepublic. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  16. ^ "How Government Data Is Fueling a New Economy". Nextgov. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  17. ^ "The Impact of Open Data". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  18. ^ "The Impact of Open Data". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  19. ^ "19 Studies on Open Data's Impact Worldwide • Open MENA". Open MENA. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  20. ^ "#ThisWeekInData- Data-Smart City Solutions". Data-Smart City Solutions. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  21. ^ "How Canada leads the way in charity data". Powered by Data. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  22. ^ "Implementation critical to use of open data in NHS – GovLab". www.nationalhealthexecutive.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  23. ^ "Open data blueprint to be NHS 'milestone'- The Commissioning Review". www.thecommissioningreview.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
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