Digital Civic Infrastructure Initiative
The Digital Civic Infrastructure Initiative is a new Harvard Kennedy School program (in the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, led by Danielle Allen) helping local governments use technology to strengthen democracy, transparency, and citizen engagement, with an early output being Open Book, a free open-source municipal budget-transparency tool.
Cambridge, MA
2026
Advocacy tech, Budget explorers, Building inside government, Building in the private sector, Build something, Citizen Engagement, Digital transformation, Government transparency, Govtech, Learn to build, Participatory democracy, Supporting public sector from outside government, The People, The Tech, Watchdogging and transparency
