Event
The Open Data Policy Lab Commemorates International Data Privacy Day
A selection of readings from The GovLab on data privacy
This piece was originally publushed on The GovLab's Data Stewards Network. Data Privacy Day is an international event celebrated...
By Andrew Zahuranec
New Publication
Launch of the State of Open Data Policy Online Repository
A new collection of policies around open data and data collaboration around the world.
Today, the Open Data Policy Lab is happy to announce the launch of its latest online resource: The State of Open Data Policy Repository, a...
By Marine Ragnet, Andrew...
Year in Review
2022 Year in Review: Fostering Systematic, Sustainable and Responsible Data Re-use for Social Impact
As 2022 draws to a close, we take this opportunity to reflect on all that we’ve accomplished this year and how we might build on our work in 2023 and beyond.
As an action-research center, The GovLab’s Data Program’s goal is to unlock and advance the re-use of data to empower...
By The Govlab, Sampriti Saxena ...
New Publication
Open Data Policy Lab Releases New Guide Establishing the Case for Data Collaboration and Re-Use
This worksheet helps data stewards, in both the private and public sectors, identify incentives and benefits of providing access to their data for re-use in the public good and create a business case.
Providing access to data to facilitate responsible re-use can help improve governance and public services; accelerate innovation through...
By Lisa Talia Moretti
Report
New Report Assessing the Use of Non-Traditional Data During a Pandemic Crisis Released
The GovLab and the Knight Foundation have released a new report examining the use of non-traditional data for pandemic response.
As the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate, pandemics pose major challenges on all levels–with cataclysmic effects on...
By Hannah Chafetz
Event
Data Collaboration for the Blue Economy: The GovLab, Intertidal Agency, and Openscapes Host Studio on Data Stewardship and Governance Models for Data Sharing
The GovLab, Intertidal Agency, and Openscapes organized a set of studios to empower early career ocean professionals to open their datasets and embody data stewardship principles.
The Blue Economy is an expansive concept. In the words of the World Bank, it is “the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic...
By Andrew Zahuranec, Kate Wing ...
New Publication
Open Data Policy Lab Publishes New Guide on Periodic Table of Open Data
This User’s Guide is a checklist and tool to weigh different elements based on their context and priorities.
In 2016, The GovLab published the Periodic Table of Open Data Impact Factors, a framework for understanding the many elements that support...
By Sampriti Saxena, Andrew...
Testimonials
The Data Stewards Academy: Reflections from our Eastern Hemisphere Expert Cohort
Since its launch in 2020, the Data Stewards Academy has hosted three expert cohorts from around the world as a part of their executive...
By Stefaan Verhulst, Sampriti...
City Incubator
Subnational Data Innovation Research Blog Series: The Advent of Data Infrastructure
Examining findings from the Open Data Policy Lab's City Incubator program
The Open Data Policy Lab’s City Incubator program was established in September 2021 to help realize the Third Wave of Open Data at the...
By Yuki Mitsuda
City Incubator
Subnational Data Innovation Research Blog Series: The Intersection of Data, Equity, and City Governments
Examining findings from the Open Data Policy Lab's City Incubator program
The Open Data Policy Lab’s City Incubator program was established in September 2021 to help realize the Third Wave of Open Data at the...
By Yuki Mitsuda
EVENTS
Open Data Policy Lab Releases State of Open Data Policy Summit Key Highlights Video
A compilation of major takeaways from the State of Open Data Policy Summit
On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, The Open Data Policy Lab hosted its inaugural “State of Open Data Policy Summit.” Over the course of...
By Andrew Zahuranec
Events
Turning to Purpose-Driven, Collaborative Open Data Sharing and Standards in the Public and Private Sectors: Takeaways from the State of Open Data Policy Summit
An overview of major developments emerging from the Open Data Policy Lab's State of Open Data Policy Summit
From improving disease response to enabling more equitable public transportation to promoting child well-being,...
By Marine Ragnet, Uma Kalkar ...
Guest Blog
Data First: Reflections of the Municipality of the City of Mendoza in a study on road safety
Mendoza City's Luciano Pedro Santoni, a participant in the Open Data Policy Lab's City Incubator Program, describes his work on a new platform to better file traffic accident reports and collect info.
This piece is a guest blog produced as part of the Open Data Policy Lab's City Incubator program, which helped public intrapreneurs...
By Luciano Pedro Santoni
Guest Blog
How the City of Winnipeg’s Diversity Dashboard is Helping to Set Diversity Goals
The City of Winnipeg's Jennifer Bodnarchuk, a participant in the Open Data Policy Lab's City Incubator Program, describes her work on a Diversity Dashboard to better represent diversity data.
This piece is a guest blog produced as part of the Open Data Policy Lab's City Incubator program, which helped public intrapreneurs within...
By Jennifer Bodnarchuk, MSc, PhD
New Resource
Launch: State of Open Data Policy Repository
A collection of recent policy changes related to data collaboration.
To accompany its State of Open Data Policy Summit, the Open Data Policy Lab is happy to announce today the release of a new resource to...
By Marine Ragnet
Event
Announcing New Global, Nonpartisan Summit on State of Open Data Policy
Identifying Policy Requirements to Facilitate the Third Wave of Open Data
From improving disease response to enabling more equitable public transportation to promoting child well-being,...
By The Govlab
Press Release
Ten most pressing, high-impact questions to drive change in inclusive and sustainable mobility
The GovLab, Development Bank of Latin America, Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative, and the New Urban Mobility Alliance launch the 100 Questions “Urban Mobility and Transportation” Domain
BROOKLYN, New York, April 12, 2022 – The Governance Lab (The GovLab) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, along with CAF - ...
By The Govlab
Strategy
Microsoft Launches Open Data for Social Impact Framework
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the launch of their Open Data for Social Impact Framework. This framework builds on a key learning...
By Sampriti Saxena
Announcement
Announcing the First Data Stewards Academy Executive Education Course Focused on the Eastern Hemisphere
Over the course of eight weeks, participants will learn about the ways they can use data to improve how they operate and pursue goals in the public’s interest.
Data innovation is happening around the world. Yet, many of the most exciting developments in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific go unreported...
By Adrienne Schmoeker
Publication
Toward A Periodic Table of Open Data Elements in Cities
Providing a summary of the major issues that open data practitioners can think about as they develop strategies for release and use of open data
In 2016, The GovLab (in collaboration with the Omidyar Network) studied the impact of open data in countries around the world. Through a...
By Andrew Zahuranec, Stefaan...
Event
Ten Cities Presenting 10 Data Innovations: How We Prepared Our Data Innovators to Put On Their Pitch Hat
Our ten cities were recently able to put their refined pitching skills to the test by giving public presentations as a part of New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress’ (CUSP) Re...
Over the course of 5 months, we have worked with ten participating cities in the City Incubator program to harness their data innovation...
By Adrienne Schmoeker
Event
Open Data Week 2022: How to ignite the Third Wave of Open Data in New York City
Identifying Ways to Promote More Purpose Led, Collaborative, and Responsible Data Openness
Open data has the potential to transform how we govern while empowering individuals and enabling economic growth. Since signing its open...
By Andrew ZahuranecCity Incubator
Data Innovation Bootcamp: Video Series Release
On December 1 2021, the Open Data Policy Lab team shared a summary of our first-ever Data Innovation Bootcamp as a part of the Open Data Policy Lab’s City Incubator.
On December 1 2021, the Open Data Policy Lab team shared a summary of our first-ever Data Innovation Bootcamp as a part of the Open Data...
By Adrienne Schmoeker
City Incubator Mentor Council
How to Accelerate the Third Wave of Open Data in 2022
In the three months since the Open Data Policy Lab announced the ten participating cities in its City Incubator program, we have worked to...
By Andrew Zahuranec, Adrienne...
New York City Council...
Toward a Third Wave of Open Data for New York City
On 10 December 2021, The GovLab’s Stefaan Verhulst testified before the New York City Council Committee on Technology as part of a hearing on “Open Data Compliance.” Below are his full remarks
Written Testimony by Stefaan G. Verhulst, Co-Founder, The GovLab, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University Before the New York City...
By The Govlab
Data Stewards Academy
OPEN NOW: Apply Today to Attend Data Stewardship Executive Education Course
Call for responsible data leaders to join the Eastern Hemisphere cohort, which will commence in March 2022
APPLY HERE BY MONDAY, JANUARY 31 Data Stewardship: Developing a Data Reuse Strategy for Public Problems, a Data Stewards Academy...
By The Govlab
City Incubator
Data Innovation Bootcamp: From Foundations of Data Innovation to Sustainability Planning in Six Weeks
A key objective of the Open Data Policy Lab involves supporting government data innovators and their work in cities around the...
By Adrienne Schmoeker
Data Stewards Academy
Why Data Stewardship? Reflections from Expert Participants in the Data Stewards Academy Executive Education Course
In 2020, The GovLab’s Open Data Policy Lab, in partnership with Microsoft, launched an executive education course, Developing a Data...
By Sampriti Saxena
Data Stewardship and COP26
Data Collaboration, and Reuse to Address Climate Change
A Collection of Resources from The GovLab Data Program
The United Kingdom is hosting the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from 31 October — 12 November...
By Yuki Mitsuda
Business Case
The “9Rs Framework”: Establishing the Business Case for Data Collaboration and Re-Using Data in the Public Interest
The Open Data Policy Lab addresses these questions with its “9R Framework,” a method for describing and identifying the business case for data reuse for the public good...
When made accessible and re-used responsibly, privately held data has the potential to generate enormous public value. Whether it’s...
By Andrew Zahuranec, Andrew...
Data Responsibility
A Curation of Tools for Promoting Effective Data Re-Use for Addressing Public Challenges
In this blog, the Data Program provides a curation of tools that we’ve developed over the years to enable systematic, sustainable and responsible re-use of data - i.e. data stewardship.
Data can be a powerful tool for change, if made accessible and leveraged responsibly. Since The GovLab’s Data Program began work six...
By Andrew Zahuranec, Stefaan...
Data Artefact Study
The GovLab Releases New Study on Population Density Data and Its Uses
Today, The GovLab is releasing a new report examining data and information about population density that can help to create social and...
By The Govlab
City Incubator
Open Data Policy Lab City Incubator Announces Inaugural Cohort
Announcing the participants in a program meant to empower public intrapreneurs within cities around the world to develop their data innovation ideas into reality.
In spite of a global pandemic, cities around the world are continuing to build and scale impactful, effective, equity-driven, and open data...
By Adrienne Schmoeker
Open Data's Impact
How Ukraine Is Using Open Data to Tackle Corruption
Guest post from Dmytro Buhanevych, Program Coordinator at the Eurasia Foundation
Key Takeaways Digitalization of government plays a key role in democratization and increase in transparency and accountability in...
By Dmytro Bukhanevych
The “Onion Model”
A Layered Approach to Documenting How the Third Wave of Open Data Can Provide Societal Value
There’s a lot that goes into data-driven decision-making. Behind the datasets, platforms, and analysts is a complex series of...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
City Incubator
Announcing the Open Data Policy Lab's City Incubator
A program that helps public intrapreneurs within cities around the world to develop their data innovation ideas into reality by providing dedicated support across a 6 month period.
Hackathons. Data Jams. Dashboards. Mapping, analyzing, and releasing open data. These are some of the essential first steps in building a...
By The Govlab
Data Stewards Academy
Announcing the Launch of Data Stewards Academy Executive Education Course Second Cohort
Today the Data Stewards Academy welcomed a new cohort of learners for the second iteration of its executive education course: Developing a...
By Sampriti Saxena
Data Responsibility
LAUNCH: New Interactive Tool to Enable Trusted Data Collaboration in Society
Public Beta of the Data Responsibility Journey Mapping Tool
Data Collaboratives, the purpose-driven reuse of data in the public interest, have demonstrated their ability to unlock the societal value...
By Andrew Young
Data Stewards Academy
Apply Now for the Second Cohort of the Data Stewards Academy Executive Education Course
Developing a Data Reuse Strategy for Public Problems, a Data Stewards Academy executive education course, is now accepting applicants for...
By Andrew Young
First Anniversary of the Open...
A Selection of Activities, Achievements, and Future Priorities
When The GovLab launched the Open Data Policy Lab one year ago with support from Microsoft, we did so in a strange and uncertain world. Much...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
Data Stewards Academy
Testimonials and Lessons Learned from a First-of-Its-Kind Data Stewardship Executive Education Course
Access the course syllabus here In late 2020, The GovLab’s Open Data Policy Lab initiative, supported by Microsoft, announced the...
By Andrew Young, Stefaan...
New Brief
What Is Mobility Data? Where Is It Used?
Mobility data is data about the geographic location of a device passively produced through normal activity. Throughout the pandemic, public...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
#Data4COVID19
What is the potential of mobility data to tackle pandemics?
Thinking about March 2020 can be a surreal experience. This time last year, people around the world were just entering lockdown — for...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
#Data4COVID19
What was the role of Open Government Data in the early days of COVID-19?
This summary was originally published by the OECD on its website. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for access to timely,...
By The Govlab
Primer 8: Tracking, Monitoring, and Clarifying Decision and Data Provenance
Capturing data-handling and decision-making processes to ensure coordination
Download the Primer Why Data and decision provenance are key to reducing data risks while re-using data in the most impactful way. By...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
Primer 7: Fostering Public Data Competence
Engaging citizens to promote wider use of data informed by local contexts and priorities
Download the Primer Why Facilitating greater data competence within the general public is an important step to ensuring that it could...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
Primer 6: Creating the Technical Infrastructure for Re-use
Investing in innovative and sophisticated technologies to improve data use on data supply and demand sides
Download the Primer Why Open data portals have been key in enabling open data, combining various institutional datasets and allowing users...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
Primer 5: Establishing Governance Frameworks
Creating safeguards to mitigate risks of harmful outcomes
Download the Primer Why Even 20 years into the digital revolution, rules and regulations dictating data usage remain sparse. While this...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
Primer 4: Supporting New Data Intermediaries
Engaging actors who can lower transaction costs in data collaborative relationships
Download the Primer Why Matching the supply of data with those who demand it can be costly in terms of time, resources, and staff....
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
Primer 3: Articulating Value and Building an Impact Evidence Base
Demonstrating the concrete, tangible value of increased access to and re-use of data
Download the Primer Why In the past, open data advocates have tended to argue for increased data re-use by relying on normative arguments....
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
Primer 2: Fostering and Distributing Institutional Data Capacity
Taking steps to avoid consolidating and siloing of data skills and resources, and instead catalyzing such capacity to filter into daily institutional operations
Download the Primer Why Organizations across sectors can increase the societal and organizational value created through data re-use by...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
Primer 1: Creating and Empowering (Chief) Data Stewards
Developing and nurturing responsible data leaders to support impactful data re-use
Download the Primer Why The Third Wave brings with it a focus on the institutional arrangements that need to be reimagined to achieve a more...
By Kateryna Gazaryan, Andrew...
#Data4COVID19
Have we built the data infrastructure and ecosystem needed to tackle pandemics and other dynamic threats?
A year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic became real for people across the world. Though the spectre of the virus had been seen in the days and...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
The Third Wave of Open Data
Open Data Policy Lab Releases Third Wave of Open Data Toolkit
DOWNLOAD THE TOOLKIT Open data and data re-use, when leveraged responsibly, can enable innovative problem-solving. On issues as complex and...
By Andrew Zahuranec
Open Data Day 2021
How to unlock open data's potential moving forward?
By Andrew J. Zahuranec, Andrew Young, and Stefaan G. Verhulst. Originally published at Data & Policy For over a decade,...
By Andrew Zahuranec, Stefaan...
Open Data Day 2021
Come sbloccare il suo potenziale proseguendo?
By Andrew J. Zahuranec, Andrew Young, and Stefaan G. Verhulst. Translated into Italian by Maurizio Napolitano. Per oltre un decennio, i...
By Andrew Zahuranec, Andrew...
Data Stewardship Course
ANNOUNCING: First of its Kind Executive Course on Data Stewardship — Focused on Data Re-Use in the Public Interest
Learn how to initiate a data strategy in the public interest from key players in the field
Today, the Open Data Policy Lab is excited to announce a first ever online executive course on Data Stewardship: Developing a Data Reuse...
By Andrew Young
The Third Wave of Open Data
Connecting the Past, Present, and Future of Re-Using Data to Advance Societal Goals
Our world faces many challenges ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to the threat of climate change to growing economic inequality. Faced...
By Stefaan Verhulst, Andrew...
Data to Go
The Value of Data Portability as a Means to Data Liquidity
If data is the “new oil,” why isn’t it flowing? For almost two decades, data management in fields such as government,...
By Stefaan Verhulst, Juliet...
The Data Assembly
Toward Responsible Data Re-Use for COVID-19 in New York City
Key Takeaways
The Data Assembly is an initiative from The GovLab supported by the Henry Luce Foundation to solicit diverse, actionable public input on...
By Andrew Zahuranec, Andrew...
Open Data and Climate Change
The World is On Fire. Data Can Help
Accelerating Data Collaboration
Right now, huge swathes of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest are burning. In the Arctic, ice has melted to near-record...
By Andrew Zahuranec
Summer of Open Data
Panel #10
Defining the Value Proposition, Building Common Infrastructure, and Avoiding Missed Use
Panelists, clockwise from top left: Andrew Young (The GovLab); Daniel Jarratt (Infinite Campus); Vanessa Brown (National Student...
By Andrew Young
Summer of Open Data
Panel #9
Incentives for Data Reuse, Frameworks for Collaboration, and Centering Data Responsibility
The Summer of Open Data is a three-month project spearheaded by the Open Data Policy Lab (an initiative of The GovLab with support from...
By Andrew Young
Summer of Open Data
Panel #8
Focus on Public Communication, Legal Mandates, and Data Ethics
The Summer of Open Data is a three-month project spearheaded by the Open Data Policy Lab (an initiative of The GovLab with support from...
By Andrew Young, Andrew...
Building a Knowledge Base
Selected Readings on Data Portability
Emerging Literature for Future Work on Data Portability
As part of an ongoing effort to build a knowledge base for the field of improving governance through technology, The GovLab publishes a...
By Andrew Young, Stefaan...
Summer of Open Data
Panel #7
The Impact of COVID-19 on States, Localities, and Business
Clockwise from the top left: Stefaan Verhulst (The GovLab); Rudi Borrmann (Open Government Partnership); Kara Selke (StreetLight Data); and...
By Andrew Zahuranec
Summer of Open Data
Panel #6
Subnational Data, Sustainability, and Skills Development
Panelists, clockwise from top left: Stefaan Verhulst (The GovLab); Rhiannan Price (Maxar Technologies); Stephen Chacha (Tanzania Data Lab);...
By Andrew Zahuranec
Summer of Open Data
Panel #5
Data Reuse, Service Delivery, and Horizontal Silos
Panelists, clockwise from top left: Arturo Muente Kunigami (Inter-American Development Bank); Malarvizhi Veerappan (World Bank); Jaimie Boyd...
By Andrew Zahuranec
Summer of Open Data
Panel #4
Data Responsibility and New Forms of Collaboration
The Summer of Open Data is a three-month project spearheaded by the Open Data Policy Lab (an initiative of The GovLab with support from...
By Mary Ann Badavi
Summer of Open Data
#3: Keynote
Conversation with Taiwan's Audrey Tang
The Summer of Open Data is a three-month project spearheaded by the Open Data Policy Lab (an initiative of The...
By Andrew Zahuranec
Summer of Open Data
Panel #2
Data Re-Use from Local Government to the Corporate Sector
Panelists, clockwise from top left: Stefaan Verhulst, The Govlab; Paul Ko, LinkedIn; Denise Linn Reidl, City of South Bend, Indiana; Justine...
By Mary Ann Badavi, Andrew...
Summer of Open Data
Panel #1: Kick-Off
What Are The Contours of The Third Wave of Open Data?
Today, The Open Data Policy Lab is delighted to release the kick-off panel of our Summer of Open Data including three of the...
By Andrew Zahuranec
Summer of Open Data
Accelerating Data Collaboration
Jump Starting the Third Wave of Open Data
Despite the proliferation of data, its potential has yet to be realized in policy- and decision-making. Many of the most useful datasets...
By The Govlab
Building a Knowledge Base
Selected Readings on Open Data Legislation and Policy
Outlining the Open Data Ecosystem
INTRODUCTION Amid increasingly pressing demands for information pertaining to public health, government response, and administrative...
By Danuta Egle
Building a Knowledge Base
Open Data Index
10 Insights on the Value of Open Data
What’s the value of open data? For the last few years, The GovLab has curated and identified hundreds of studies on the use and value...
By The Govlab
Launching the Open Data Policy...
From Idea to Reality
Why We Need an Open Data Policy Lab
The belief that we are living in a data age — one characterized by unprecedented amounts of data, with unprecedented potential —...
By Stefaan Verhulst
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