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
Digital Service Network
Highlights
Engage 8,000+ practitioners at all levels of government through the Digital Government Network and the Digital Service Network by providing actionable, practitioner-focused research, case studies, and resources to accelerate digital transformation.
Help governments stand up digital service teams to accelerate effective service delivery, strengthen existing teams with expertise and tools to increase their impact, and support leaders in hiring the right talent to sustain long term delivery capacity.
Cultivate networks and communities that connect and empower digital service leaders to shape strategy, share innovations, and scale proven approaches to help residents receive the services they need.
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.
The Digital Benefits Network and Massive Data Institute Experiment with AI to Translate Public Benefits Policies into Software Code
Mar. 27, 2025
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
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.
“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
