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Mapping the hot spots and cold spots across our civic life journey: data shows ways to improve access to civic engagement and participation
Posted in May 28, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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SubscribeLiving well with data: stewardship as a just and viable paradigm
Report by Reema Patel: "Our collective thinking about data governance is shaped by unconscious beliefs about the world. These are sometimes described as mental models.…
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Design Thinking
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Stop Building Innovation Labs
Posted in May 28, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
Citizen Engagement
PEOPLE
Mapping the hot spots and cold spots across our civic life journey: data shows ways to improve access to civic engagement and participation
Posted in May 28, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
Citizen Engagement
PEOPLE
Habermolt: Delegating Deliberation to AI Representatives
Posted in May 27, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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DATA
Data Collaboratives
Sovereign Data Supply Chain: Functional and Operational Framework
Posted in March 10, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
Artificial Intelligence
DATA
The AI Lab Next Door
Posted in March 10, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
Artificial Intelligence
DATA
AI-Ready Biodata Is America’s Next Strategic Infrastructure
Posted in March 10, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
Data
Artificial Intelligence, Collection
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Open Protocols Can Prevent AI Monopolies
Posted in August 3, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
Collection, DATA, Data Collaboratives
DATAData Collaboratives
DATA
Data Collaboratives
Lessons in Traffic: Nairobi’s School Term and Equity Challenges
Posted in August 2, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
Collection, DATA
DATA
DATA
The Nation’s Data at a Crossroads
Posted in August 2, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
Artificial Intelligence, Collection
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
Posted in August 2, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
Artificial Intelligence, Collection
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
AI is the new foreign aid
Posted in August 2, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
Blockchain, Collection
Blockchain
Blockchain
Blockchain Politics: Ideology and the Crisis of Social Trust
Posted in August 1, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
People
Civic Technology, Collection, Collective Intelligence, INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION, PEOPLE
Civic TechnologyCollective IntelligenceINSTITUTIONAL INNOVATIONPEOPLE
Civic Technology
Collective Intelligence
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
PEOPLE
SeeClickFix Empowers Citizens by Connecting Them to Their Local Governments
Posted in May 9, 2017 by Stefaan Verhulst
Collection, Collective Intelligence, PEOPLE
Collective IntelligencePEOPLE
Collective Intelligence
PEOPLE
Bigger data, less wisdom: the need for more inclusive collective intelligence in social service provision
Posted in April 18, 2017 by Stefaan Verhulst
Collection, Collective Intelligence, PEOPLE
Collective IntelligencePEOPLE
Collective Intelligence
PEOPLE
OpenAerialMap
Posted in April 4, 2017 by Stefaan Verhulst
Collection, Collective Intelligence, PEOPLE
Collective IntelligencePEOPLE
Collective Intelligence
PEOPLE
For Whose Benefit? The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation
Posted in April 1, 2017 by Stefaan Verhulst
Collection, Collective Intelligence, PEOPLE
Collective IntelligencePEOPLE
Collective Intelligence
PEOPLE
DoGood: Examining gamification, civic engagement, and collective intelligence
Posted in March 27, 2017 by Stefaan Verhulst
PEOPLE
PEOPLE
PEOPLE
Crowdsourcing Expertise
Posted in March 1, 2017 by Stefaan Verhulst
Institutional Innovation
Collection, INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Liberated Public Services: A new vision for citizens, professionals and policy makers
Posted in June 8, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst
Collection, INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine
Posted in June 5, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst
Collection, INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Missions with Impact: A practical guide to formulating effective missions
Posted in June 3, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst
Civic Technology, Collection, INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Civic TechnologyINSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Civic Technology
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
In the Land of the Unreal
Posted in June 3, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst
Collection, INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Making Sense of Wicked Problems
Posted in June 2, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst
Behavioral Science, Collection
Behavioral Science
Behavioral Science
Behavioral Decision Analysis
Posted in June 2, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst
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