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The Beeck Center improves systems that are the foundation for daily life, using data, design, technology, and policy as instruments for equitable societal change.
Right Now We Are
Digital Service Network
Highlights
- Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.
- Supporting a community of practice to share and replicate proven approaches to deliver services and carry out missions. Leading training and technical assistance on topics such as investing American Rescue Plan funds for data and technology infrastructure.
Team
Update
Toward sound, explicit theories of change for Digital Service teams
Jan. 18, 2023
Digital Benefits Network
Highlights
- Expanding access and uptake of public benefits by documenting and sharing equitable data, design, and technology-driven interventions.
- Leading a network of public benefits practitioners who are implementing innovative ways to improve access and administration.
- Creating actionable tools and resources to replicate proven approaches across benefit programs.
Team
Update
New Dataset: Digital Authentication and Identity Proofing in Public Benefits Applications
May. 22, 2023
Intergovernmental Software Collaborative
Highlights
- Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.
- Supporting a network of software cooperatives to share existing and new software among one another.
- Investigating how government agencies can better utilize shared technology and data to respond to exigencies of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Team
Update
Learning from Failure: When Sharing Software Doesn’t Work
Apr. 11, 2022
Data Labs
Highlights
- Championing innovative approaches to data sharing and utilization across state governments, enhancing the ability to address complex policy challenges through evidence-based strategies.
- Facilitating collaboration between cross-functional teams in state government to foster a more integrated and effective approach to data-informed policymaking.
- Providing states with tailored assistance and training from national experts to develop a robust project implementation plan that paves the way for future scalable efforts.
Team
Update
Data Labs Now Accepting Project Proposals for Its Third Cohort
Feb. 1, 2024
The Opportunity Project for Cities
Highlights
- Leveraging data, community partnerships, and open source technology to co-create digital products that solve local challenges.
- Training city leaders in community-centered design to prioritize the voices of affected communities in data-driven innovation.
- Building a network of cities equipped with replicable open source solutions to scale best practices for community-driven innovation.
Team
Update
The Beeck Center and the Centre for Public Impact Release Joint Report to Advance Civic Technology and Open-Data Innovation in Local Government
Apr. 23, 2024
State Chief Data Officers Network
Highlights
- Publishing guidance and recommendations for state leaders to leverage the role of a chief data officer.
- Bringing chief data officers together in a formal network to share and scale best practices.
- Supporting talent pipelines from higher education into state government data teams.
Team
Update
The Uniquely Collaborative Role of CDOs
Jun. 5, 2023
The Latest
Updates
Beeck Center Hosts 10th Anniversary Event Celebrating “A Decade of Impact”
Apr. 24, 2024
Reports & Resources
The City of Santa Ana’s Website Overhaul: A Digital Service Network Spotlight
This resource highlights the City of Santa Ana's website overhaul and how digital service innovation can occur in government organizations without formally codified or centralized digital service teams.
Apr. 2, 2024
Events
Launch & Information Session: Policy2Code Prototyping Challenge
May 3, 2024
1:00 pm
Virtual
Join us for the launch and information session for the Policy2Code Prototyping Challenge, which invites experiments to test how generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used to translate government policies for U.S. public benefits programs into plain language and software code.
Our Impact
By tapping into the talent of our Georgetown students—and nurturing their growth in the field by pairing them with some of the brightest minds in public interest technology—the Beeck Center is not only actively changing societal systems, but ensuring that same spirit of innovation lives on well into the future. ROBERT M. GROVES
Provost, Georgetown University
More than 300
Beeck Center alumni. Georgetown University undergraduate and graduate students are the engine driving our work since we launched in 2014.