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People-Led Innovation

Unlocking People's Expertise to Solve Urban Challenges

2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2018
methodology, reports

The How We Need Now: A Capacity Agenda For 2025 And Beyond

By Jennifer Pahlka and Andrew Greenway for the Niskanen Center

USA
reports

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024

A ten-year anniversary retrospective on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, which was accessed by 1.4 million people in 230 countries to download 2.7 million open humanitarian datasets in 2023.

Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal, The Hague, Netherlands
2024
United Nations, reports

Thinking about GovTech: A brief guide for policymakers

(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.

53 Milverton Road, London, UK
reports

Smart cities: Digital solutions for a more livable future

a McKinsey report

city, Sustainable cities and communities, reports

UN E-Government Survey

Since 2001, the United Nations E-Government Survey has provided a comprehensive assessment of the digital government landscape across all 193 Member States.

2001
United Nations, city, reports, comparative

A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI

Our report, “A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI,” (May 2024) provides a new framework and recommendations to support open data providers and other interested parties in making open data “ready” for generative AI.

2024
reports

Civic Information Index

The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.

Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
2025
local, census, reports

Best practices of engaging and involving people with lived experience in decision-making

Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

Scotland
2023
reports