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The GovLab's Public Problem Solving Canvas is an online interactive canvas based on twenty questions to create and develop your public interest project. These twenty questions are designed to help you refine your understanding of the problem and those whom it affects; express your Big Idea; and turn that idea into an actionable strategy in the real world to the end of improving people's lives.

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Publisher

GovLab

Discipline or practice

Product Design

Strategic Design

Link to toolkit

http://canvas.govlabacademy.org/

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About this resource

Type

Tool/Toolset

Features

Interactive diagnostic

Country/Territory

United States

Date Published

2015

License

CC BY-SA Attribution-ShareAlike

Formats

Interactive canvas

Web-based resource

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