A Curation of Tools for Promoting Effective Data Re-Use for Addressing Public Challenges


Blog by Sampriti Saxena, Andrew J. Zahuranec, and Stefaan Verhulst: “Data can be a powerful tool for change, if made accessible and leveraged responsibly. Since The GovLab’s Data Program began work six years ago, it has structured most of its work around this fact, seeking to tackle many of the complex challenges we face today by enabling access to data. 

In this blog, the Data Program provides a curation of tools that we’ve developed over the years to enable systematic, sustainable and responsible re-use of data – i.e. data stewardship. Organized into four categories—each dealing with a topic or issue we’ve studied in our work—this listing gives data practitioners the resources they need to make sense of the data they work with.  We hope that it will help practitioners to develop fit-for-purpose approaches when designing open data and data collaboration initiatives.

  • Data Collaboration…
  • Open Data…
  • Responsible Data…
  • Participatory Approaches…(More)”.