Innovate Public Schools

Northeastern students from the AI4Impact class are collaborating with parents in San Jose and San Francisco and Innovate Public School in developing a generative AI tool. This tool will make Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) more accessible to parents and caregivers.

TNTP

With the assistance of AI-based conversation tools, TNTP will conduct a digital engagement to capture collective information that accurately reflects the community's desires for educational change in rural Arkansas.

Unlocking Literacy

In the first stage of this series of AI-enabled engagements, we are using generative AI and the open source tool All Our Ideas to help: 1) research background information, 2) craft content, and 3) organize responses from communities about the underlying causes of the literacy gap. We are engaging with both a representative sample of the public and self-selected participants.

Educators for Excellence

Educators for Excellence is leveraging contracts to empower teachers. They are engaging with teachers using AI-based conversation summaries to redesign the National Council on Teacher Quality's contract database platform from a teacher-centered perspective. This will enhance teachers' understanding of the possible inclusions in their contracts.

Our Turn

Hundreds of young students aged 14-22 were engaged by Our Turn with the help of All Our Ideas to determine their thoughts on necessary changes to help them thrive and to address their main concerns regarding their schools. Their input is currently shaping the revision of the National Student Agenda.

Collective Intelligence Project

Effective, decentralized, and agentic decision-making across individuals and communities to produce best-case decisions for the collective.

Oakland City Challenge

Online open innovation process using Your Priorities to address challenges our city faces regarding homelessness, violent crime, and abandoned vehicles and illegal dumping.

Smarter Crowdsourcing: Modernization of Congress

Two online deliberations to inform the Committee's process of developing recommendations on evidence-based lawmaking.

ReinventED: Your Education, Your Voice

Engaging diverse students, families and educators in education policymaking

Smarter Crowdsourcing: Experiential Learning

Two online deliberations to identify innovations in experiential learning in higher education and beyond.

Smarter Crowdsourcing: Coranovirus

Series of six online deliberations to identify strategies for governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to more effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Symptom Tracker

An online tool that provides COVID-19 health guidance to users based on their symptoms.

Case Study

Organisation For Economic Cooperation And Development (Oecd): Observatory For Public Sector Innovation

This Library Connects Distributed Innovators to Information and to One Another

Case Study

Environmental Protection Agency: One Epa Skills Marketplace

This Program Helps Civil Servants Break Out of Silos and Create Project Teams across the Agency.

Case Study

Novagob

Creating a community of Spanish speaking public employees across national and institutional borders

Case Study

Office Of Management And Budget: Max.Gov

The governmentwide collaboration site whose robust authentication system enables working and sharing knowledge across agency boundaries

Case Study

City Of Sao Paulo: Agents Of Open Government

Brazil's largest city is embarking on a massive experiment to have citizens educate its public employees.

Case Study

Torfaen County Borough Council: Wisdom Bank Torfaen

This neighbor-helping-neighbor expert network attempts to replace the pub conversation

Article

Expanding and Strengthening Engagement on Decide Madrid: A Data-Driven Evaluation

By Beth Simone Noveck, Valeria Gomez Palacios, Dane Gambrell

Article

CrowdLaw in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs

By Beth Simone Noveck

Article

The Power of Virtual Communities

By Beth Simone Noveck, James Button, Dane Gambrell, Lex Paulson, Paolo Spada, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

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Virtual Communities Literature Review,

By Dane Gambrell, Beth Simone Noveck

Article

Using Collective Intelligence to Solve Public Problems

By Beth Simone Noveck, Dane Gambrell, Matt Ryan

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Collective Intelligence: a checklist for the public sector

By Beth Simone Noveck, Dane Gambrell, Matt Ryan

Teaching

Collective Crisis Intelligence Course

As the COVID-19 virus rapidly spreads to more than 150 countries on six continents, public institutions are straining to keep up. To assist you in responding during this time of crisis, we have assembled this collection of coaching videos from those who have successfully responded to a crisis before by successfully using technology to engage with a larger “crowd” of volunteers.

Teaching

Solving Public Problems

How to take advantage of technology, data and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems

Teaching

InnovateUS: Innovation Skills Accelerator

Based on research with thousands of public servants across three continents, our problem-solving curriculum gives you the digital, data and innovation skills to deliver more effective, equitable and engaged policies and services. Through videos, self-assessments and worksheets, we share practical lessons learned about improved ways of working. The course consists of 15 modules which include 24 short videos, optional readings and videos with leading changemakers.

Teaching

Collective Intelligence

Introduces how co-creation, collaboration, and crowdsourcing can be used to define problems and identify solutions and available tools to put collective intelligence into practice.

Teaching

Equitable Engagement

Introduces a practical guide for how to engage communities in identifying solutions, with an emphasis on how to reach underrepresented voices and communities.

Teaching

Human Centered Design

Introduces the benefits and limitations of human centered design, a set of methods that enables public servants to gather valuable input from citizens to better understand problems.

Resources

Reboot Democracy Lecture Series

Sign up to receive updates from the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University and its partner project The GovLab as we talk with innovative designers, thinkers, and changemakers from around the world working to “do democracy” differently.

Video

Collective Intelligence Conference

CI 2017 is the fifth annual interdisciplinary conference dedicated to advancing our understanding of collective intelligence and the workings of groups

Resources

People-Led Innovation Methodology

“People-Led Innovation: Toward a Methodology for Solving Urban Problems in the 21st Century,” is a new methodology by The GovLab and Bertelsmann Foundation aimed at empowering public entrepreneurs, particularly city-level government officials, to engage the capacity and expertise of people in solving major public challenges.

Resources

Collective Intelligence: A checklist for the public sector

If public institutions are to solve problems more effectively and legitimately, they need to understand how to mobilise and apply collective intelligence, namely how to use new technology to collaborate with the public.

Resources

Smarter Crowdsourcing Process

Combining Artificial and Collective Intelligence to Solve Our Hardest Problems

Resources

Multi City Challenge Process

In a City or Multi-Challenge, cities work together with their residents to identify and then collaboratively implement solutions to contemporary urban challenges, such as climate change and sustainability, public health and equity, congestion and pollution, structural racism and civic engagement