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Clichés We Live By

Design Thinking

Posted in May 8, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst

Open Innovation

Better Questions, Better Insights

Democracy

Posted in May 8, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst

The Myth of the Informed Citizen

Civic Technology

Design Thinking

E-Gov

Posted in May 7, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst

Signals from the Frontier of Digital Statecraft: Rethinking governance in the age of AI

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Citizen Engagement

Posted in February 28, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst

Local Strategies for Engaging Youth with Data

Citizen Engagement

Posted in February 25, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst

Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy

Posted in February 25, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst

The Day Europe’s Data Stops Flowing

Data

Posted in August 28, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst

Data for Sale: Uncovering public procurement of private sector data in The Netherlands

Posted in August 28, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst

Open Data and Equity: Naming the Issues, Blaming the Causes, and Claiming Solutions. An Exploratory and Interdisciplinary Systematic Literature Review

Posted in August 25, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst

Large Language Models in the Data Science Lifecycle: A Systematic Mapping Study

Posted in August 13, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst

Future Problem-Solving: Artificial Intelligence & Other Wildly Complex Issues

Posted in August 13, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst

What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?

Posted in August 12, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst

There’s no good replacement for government data

People

Posted in March 20, 2019 by Stefaan Verhulst

Comparative Accuracy of Diagnosis by Collective Intelligence of Multiple Physicians vs Individual Physicians

Posted in February 23, 2019 by Stefaan Verhulst

A Parent-To-Parent Campaign To Get Vaccine Rates Up

Posted in February 20, 2019 by Stefaan Verhulst

Co-Creating e-Government Services: An Empirical Analysis of Participation Methods in Belgium

Collection, Crowdlaw, PEOPLE

CrowdlawPEOPLE

Crowdlaw

Posted in February 14, 2019 by Stefaan Verhulst

Congress needs your input (but don’t call it crowdsourcing)

Posted in February 4, 2019 by Stefaan Verhulst

WeDialogue

Posted in January 31, 2019 by Stefaan Verhulst

The city as collective intelligence

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Institutional Innovation

Posted in September 3, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst

Policies must be justified by their wellbeing-to-cost ratio

Posted in August 29, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst

Even laypeople use legalese

Posted in August 27, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst

Policy Fit for the Future

Posted in July 30, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst

Regulating the Direction of Innovation

Civic Technology, Collection, INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION

Civic TechnologyINSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION

Civic Technology

Posted in July 27, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst

Governments Empower Citizens by Promoting Digital Rights

Posted in July 27, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst

Harnessing Technology for Inclusive Prosperity

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