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The Pattern of Change
Book by Robert V. Moody, Ming-Dao Deng: "One of life's most fundamental revelations is change. Presenting the fascinating view that pattern is the manifestation of…
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The Pattern of Change
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
privacy
Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data Sharing
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
DATA
America’s Data Future: Towards A Roadmap for Action
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
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design thinking
What if design could transform the way we think and make public policies? Proposing a new model: the Policy Design Journey
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Economic and Social Mobility: New Directions for Data, Research, and Policy
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
PEOPLE
Collective cooperative intelligence
Posted in July 15, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
People
PEOPLE
Collective cooperative intelligence
Posted in July 15, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
PEOPLE
The End of the Age of NGOs? How Civil Society Lost Its Post–Cold War Power
Posted in July 7, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
crowdsourcing
Mapping the Unmapped
Posted in July 7, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
citizen science
This new cruise-ship activity is surprisingly popular
Posted in July 6, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
citizen engagement
Global Youth Participation Index – GYPI
Posted in June 24, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
citizen engagement, PEOPLE
Inclusive Rule-Making by International Organisations
Posted in June 24, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
Data
privacy
Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data Sharing
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
DATA
America’s Data Future: Towards A Roadmap for Action
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
privacy
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
artificial intelligence
AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?
Posted in July 15, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
DATA
Comparative Data Law
Posted in July 12, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
DATA
Data Governance Toolkit: Navigating Data in the Digital Age
Posted in July 9, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
Open Governance Research Exchange
Your hub for quantitative and qualitative research on innovations in governance
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Exploring the Power of Questions For Society
By: Roshni Singh, Hannah Chafetz, and Stefaan G. Verhulst The questions that society asks can transform public policy making, mobilize…
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Institutional Innovation
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
The Pattern of Change
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
design thinking
What if design could transform the way we think and make public policies? Proposing a new model: the Policy Design Journey
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Economic and Social Mobility: New Directions for Data, Research, and Policy
Posted in July 16, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
How do policy and design intersect? Three relationships
Posted in July 15, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Technology monitoring and assessment
Posted in July 14, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
How a new platform is future-proofing governance for the intelligent age
Posted in July 8, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
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