Bias Buccaneers is the first non-profit algorithmic bias bounty organization. We organize competitions to engage a broad global community in identifying and fixing ethical problems in the algorithms all companies use. The long term vision of Bias Buccaneers is to create global expertise, standards, and verifiable talent in a nascent, but rapidly growing, field.
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Government struggles to exploit advances in science and technology that could improve public services. The UK Home Office developed a new, cost-effective model to enable start-ups, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), not-for-profits and academia to solve frontline challenges across UK government using diverse, cutting-edge capabilities and expertise. Uniquely, for UK public sector, it uses flexible, novel ways of working and commercial mechanisms to deliver mission impact at pace.
LAB Justice is the first executive education program, tailor-made for the Justice sector. With a customized learning journey, it was designed to help people working for Justice bodies address the challenges faced to deliver more efficient and people-centred services. Focused on three main areas – strategic management, digital transition and leadership in a context of change –, it aims to ensure the necessary skills to implement reform measures, namely those under the Recovery and Resilience…
Digital transformation is a long-term journey that involves complex changes. One of the challenges is how we evaluate the progress. We are inspired by the quote, "If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it". Most of Catalonia's municipalities cannot do a digital assessment. The Digital Maturity Index provides an evaluation turnkey solution for local governments. It is based on open data, and it has a clear focus on public value impact.
The Center for Hybrid Intelligence (CHI) has with partners such as UN’s AI4Good and the Danish People Climate Summit piloted a new AI powered game, “Crea.visions,” which allows the general public to collaboratively create and reflect on images of possible futures. Such accessible crowdsourcing of the concerns and solutions of the general public on both global and local complex socio-scientific problems could form a cornerstone in participatory democracy in the digital age.
COVID-19 compelled for national lockdown in India too, the public had no means to consult doctors and specialists. eSanjeevani - a cloud-based population scale, indigenously developed transformative telemedicine platform was rapidly developed & operationalized nationally. eSanjeevani is an innovative solution that has brought about digital transformation (systemic) w.r.t. delivery of health services, the innovation has been a runaway success amongst patients & practitioners.
#MyFrance2022 is the largest online citizen consultation ever conducted by a public media in France. It allowed one million French people to express their priorities and to engage in direct conversation with the candidates in the run-up to the presidential election. This massive and unprecedented consultation sought to respond to the democratic urgency of placing the voice of citizens at the heart of political debates during a democratic crucial period like the presidential campaign.
For 80 years we have been working for the well-being of people in disadvantaged areas, but they have rarely been asked how they expect a suitable and valuable public space to be. With our project, we create public spaces that, apart from roads, pavements and quality access, promote safety, comfort, life and the local factor of each territory. We innovate in the way in which the inhabitants of a sector transform their environment, beyond the rootless perception of the "experts".
The Future Tech Challenge (FTC) is a pilot initiative led by DPER to connect and collaborate across the wider ecosystem, and engage in transformative innovation by experimenting with, and applying new technology to address pressing public sector problems and opportunities that deliver improved services to the public. Drive innovation using emerging technology, enhance collaboration, meet National strategic priorities, generate knowledge & learnings and develop prototyped solutions.
Metroverse is an urban economy navigator built at the Growth Lab at Harvard University. It is based on over a decade of research on how economies grow and diversify and offers brand new insights on a city's growth prospects by placing its existing technological capabilities and knowhow at the heart of how diversification unfolds. Metroverse was built using a user-centered design process to help city leaders, policymakers and researchers grapple with 21st-century urbanization challenges.