Beeck CenterGeorgetown UniversityBeeck Center: Social Impact + Innovation
The Beeck Center improves systems that are the foundation for daily life, using data, design, technology, and policy as instruments for equitable societal change.
Making systems work for all.
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.
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.
Benefit Eligibility Rules as Code: Reducing the Gap Between Policy and Service Delivery for the Safety Net
Feb. 22, 2022
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.
262 million
People across the U.S. have been touched by the Beeck Center’s projects.
