A Simple Civic Tech Evaluation Canvas

"Our goal was to apply a simple but powerful canvas tool to help our peers plan to measure immediate and long-term results of their projects."

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"At the Open Government Partnership Summit in Ottawa last spring, Sunlight, BetaNYC, DATA Uruguay, ILDA, and the Digital Minister of Taiwan came together to explore the issue of impact assessment. Even occupying differing roles within our countries’ civic tech and data ecosystems, we wanted to promote shared, holistic evaluations of cultural and social progress that might emerge from open government and civic tech reforms. Our goal was to apply a simple but powerful canvas tool to help our peers plan to measure immediate and long-term results of their projects. In groups, participants used a specific project they were working on as an example and discussed whether the tool would help them meaningfully evaluate and reflect on their own work."