Beeck CenterGeorgetown UniversityBeeck Center: Social Impact + Innovation
Celebrating a Decade of Impact and Innovation
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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
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: In addition to compiling and sharing resources and artifacts in the DSN Resource Library, we also conduct original 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; we can point people in the right direction to get 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.
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.
In April 2024, the Digital Service Network (DSN) hosted an in-person convening of 23 Chief Digital Service Officers (CDSO). The convening of CDSOs from governments across the U.S. gathered for two days on Georgetown University’s campus to share, learn, and strategize about how they work to deliver equitable, accessible, and efficient digital services. The group of CDSO leaders and the DSN team developed our CDSO toolkit for digital service improvement, designed for government digital service teams to replicate in their own organizations, aiming to spark conversations and problem-solving. The sessions also addressed leadership and talent challenges.
Join us for the Digital Benefits Conference— BenCon for short—the second annual convening of the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University.
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.
