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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: 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.
Team
Update
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.
Team
Update
Promising Practices in State Unemployment Insurance Digital Service Delivery
Dec. 21, 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
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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
Transforming U.S. Cities: How Data-Driven Solutions Drive Public Service Innovation
Jul. 30, 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 Secures $8 Million Gift from Ballmer Group to Strengthen Governments’ Ability to Deliver Critical Services to Communities
Oct. 1, 2024
Reports & Resources
Human-Centered Communication to Increase Service Uptake in New Jersey: A Digital Service Network Spotlight
The Beeck Center’s Digital Services Network (DSN) spoke with the director of the C+E Lab, Katie Fiore, and the New Jersey OOI chief of staff, Kai Feder, to learn more about the C+E Lab and its ongoing role in shifting the State’s approach to using marketing to better connect residents to programs and services.
Sep. 11, 2024
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.