Beeck CenterGeorgetown UniversityBeeck Center: Social Impact + Innovation
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The Beeck Center connects government and the civic tech ecosystem to tackle problems that no one can solve alone.
What We Do
Digital Service Network
Highlights
Share: We share stories about government digital service delivery to showcase digital innovation in practice, and maintain the DSN Resource Library with hundreds of artifacts, case studies, publications, and job descriptions to advance digital transformation in government.
Connect: We connect digital government leaders and engage through our communities of practice that promote sharing and replication of proven approaches to improving government service delivery.
Learn & Do: We conduct research to document, evaluate, and disseminate leading-edge approaches to government digital service delivery. We also support digital service delivery teams in their work, providing perspective, expertise, and assistance to get people the right help when they need it.
Toward sound, explicit theories of change for Digital Service teams
Jan. 18, 2023
Digital Benefits Network
Highlights
Leading a network of cross-program, cross-sector public benefits practitioners who are expanding the equitable access and uptake of public benefits by improving the technology and services used to deliver them.
Creating responsive and actionable tools and resources with the latest insights, promising practices, and vision for the future that enables implementation and inspires what’s possible in benefits delivery.
Driving coordination, collaboration, and alignment in the digital benefits ecosystem.
Beeck Center Announces New Innovation and Incubation Fellowship
Oct. 31, 2024
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.
Data Labs Now Accepting Project Proposals for Its Third Cohort
Feb. 1, 2024
The Opportunity Project for Cities
Highlights
Empowering local government practitioners through human-centered design training to center the voices of affected communities when designing data-driven solutions.
Partnering with communities, leveraging data, and using open-source technology to co-create accessible digital tools that address local challenges and improve government services delivery.
Building a network of cities equipped to scale and adapt best practices for community-driven innovation, using replicable open-source solutions to benefit local communities and foster broader cultural change within their organizations and beyond.
Cool Commute: A Digital Solution for Climate Resilience in Miami
Nov. 21, 2024
State Chief Data Officers Network
Highlights
Bringing together state chief data officers (CDOs) from across the country to exchange ideas, tackle shared challenges, and advance state data leadership.
Developing tools, resources, and guidance that strengthen government data practices, showcase successes, share lessons learned, and help government leaders leverage the role of CDOs.
Forging partnerships that tap into CDO expertise and strengthen collaboration among government leaders and civic tech organizations.
The Digital Benefits Ecosystem Directory + Map is a new tool for practitioners to easily find organizations—of all types—which are transforming delivery of public benefits and services.
“It’s this idea of having a network—of information and of people—that exists within your agency and outside of your agency….It is a different space than exists anywhere else.”
Jeramia Garcia Ramadan
Arizona Department of Economic Security
