Program Offers
- Frequent and constructive feedback
- Customized and original learning materials
- Peer-to-peer support
- Connections to skills and topic mentors
- Group meetings online with faculty and expert guests. Faculty and staff online office hours with the teams to address project progress
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Program Information
- WHO - Public entreprenuers with an identified project on a specific civic-tech theme. Maximum of 12 individuals and/or teams per program. By application only.
- WHAT - A blend of group sessions, peer-to-peer coaching, expert mentoring and private office hours with academy faculty.
- WHEN - Every week (for 5 weeks) or every other week (for 10 weeks)
- WHERE - Online
FAQs
Our Method
- A flexible, customized program responsive to the participants’ specific needs and challenges
- Rigorous diagnosis of impediments to project implementation
- Emphasis on specific and evidence-based problem definition to ensure that the project solves a well-defined problem
- A combination of subject-matter and skills-based training to address both deficits in knowledge about innovation and in know how about how to apply that knowledge to one’s own project
- Peer-to-peer support where similarly situated public entrepreneurs counsel and support each other through challenges together
- Mentoring and coaching from experts with a track record of leading successful social change
- High-quality original and curated content, tools, and resources
- Successful participants receive an authenticated, digital certificate upon completion
Past Courses
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Open Seventeen Spring 2018
STARTED THE WEEK OF: March 30, 2018
Open Seventeen is a prize-backed challenge to reward and invest in those developing innovative and implementable projects that leverage OPEN DATA and CROWDSOURCING to tackle the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This spring, the challenge targets “SDG #3: Healthy Lives and Well-Being for All at All Ages”, and it is run in collaboration with Be [email protected], Be Mobile, a joint program between the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Open Seventeen Spring 2019
STARTED THE WEEK OF: March 30, 2018
Open Seventeen is a prize-backed challenge to reward and invest in those developing innovative and implementable projects that leverage OPEN DATA and CROWDSOURCING to tackle the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This challenge targets “SDG #4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. This edition of O17 is inspired by the Geneva Trialogue, organized by University of Geneva, the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and XuetangX, China’s leading MOOC platform.
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Coaching Program for Data Driven Criminal Justice Projects - Fall 2016
STARTED THE WEEK OF: September 19, 2016
The second offering of a coaching program for teams and individuals working on empirically-based criminal justice innovation projects, including those working in criminal justice, health, mental health and related agencies as well as researchers and advocates.
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Led by New York City Council member Ben Kallos, this program is designed to convene government, social and civic entrepreneurs who are developing projects around the automation and delivery of benefits and services for citizens.
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Coaching program designed by Citizen Cyberlab, The GovLab , Nestlé and the Alliance4YOUTH partners, to help the participants of the “Alliance4Youth Challenge 2016” prepare to pitch their ideas of “The most attractive company in 2020.
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This program is designed to convene government, social and civic entrepreneurs (both individuals and teams) who are developing projects that have the potential to tackle the pressing needs of people in disaster-affected communities.
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Tech Innovation in Procurement
STARTED THE WEEK OF: June 13, 2016
Bringing innovation to the government supply chain is about promising and delivering on greater productivity and improved workflows.
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Coaching Program for Data Driven Criminal Justice Projects
STARTED THE WEEK OF: June 6, 2016
This program is a first-of-its-kind online convening of those working on empirically-based criminal justice innovation projects, including those working in criminal justice, health, mental health and related agencies as well as researchers and advocates
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