Northeastern students from the AI4Impact class are collaborating with parents in San Jose and San Francisco and Innovate Public School in developing a generative AI tool. This tool will make Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) more accessible to parents and caregivers.

Hundreds of young students aged 14-22 were engaged by Our Turn with the help of All Our Ideas to determine their thoughts on necessary changes to help them thrive and to address their main concerns regarding their schools. Their input is currently shaping the revision of the National Student Agenda.

In this episode of The GovLab's Collective Intelligence Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Prateek Buch and Brendan Arnold from the UK Government's Policy Lab and its innovative Collective Intelligence Lab. Prateek, a renowned advocate for responsible technology use, and Brendan, the government's first Creative Technologist, shed light o…

In this episode of The GovLab Collective Intelligence Podcast, Dane Gambrell interviews Ted Smith, former Chief of Civic Innovation for Louisville Metro Government, about the AIR Louisville project.

In this episode of The GovLab Collective Intelligence Podcast, Dane Gambrell interviews Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director of Ushahidi. Ushahidi (“testimony” in Swahili) is an online platform for crowdsourcing data in support of crisis relief, human rights advocacy, transparency and accountability campaigns. You can read our full case study a…

In this episode of The GovLab Collective Intelligence podcast, Dane Gambrell interviews Joe Micheli from the City of York Council to discuss the York Neighborhood Approach. Learn how the City Council is fostering collective action and motivating active citizens to help residents experiencing loneliness. You can read the full case study here: https:…

In November 2019, the city of Helsinki launched the Helsinki Climate Watch website (https://ilmastovahti.hel. fi)/) to track the city’s progress towards each of the 147 measures defined in its action plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035. The aim of this initiative is to develop an operating model for effective, transparent and collaborative ma…

This was recorded during NYU Solving Public Problems on March 10, 2021 Podcast duration: 26 minutes. Audience Q&A: 15 minutes synAthina is an online-offline public platform where the City of Athens supports citizens in developing and implementing projects that improve the quality of life in the city. While an activist working outside of the city’s …

Surrounded by Silicon Valley, San Francisco leaders saw a golden opportunity to improve the lives of residents by bringing private sector talent to bear on pressing City problems. Civic Bridge -- a 16-week program teaming up city staff and private sector experts to design better City services -- enables San Francisco to do just that. Guest: Amardee…

GoodSam is a revolutionary platform that alerts doctors, nurses, paramedic and those trained in basic life support to emergencies around them.GoodSAM has 25,000 first responders in the UK, and its use has spread around the world. As services like GoodSAM, founded in 2013, demonstrate, people are smart and capable; they have specific skills and abil…

When city planner Jonathan Wachtel got tired of being able to do no more to thank residents for making good suggestions about how to achieve sustainability goals, he decided to find a way he could help them to implement their own ideas. Since the program launched in 2012, more than 20,000 residents have participated in more than 500 events, worksho…