Presentation to the United Nations World Data Forum 2021; Panel on “Where to start first? — Identifying the leverage points of effective capacity development,” organized by PARIS 21 In ways both large and small, COVID-19 has forced us to re-examine every aspect of our political…

The New York City Data Assembly demonstrated the value and potential of deliberation — By Andrew Zahuranec, Andrew Young and Stefaan G. Verhulst “What does the public expect from data-driven responses to the COVID-19 pandemic? And under what conditions?” …

Written Testimony by Stefaan G. Verhulst Co-Founder, The GovLab, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University Before the New York City Council Committee on Technology Oversight Hearing: Smart City, January 19, 2021 Chairman Holden and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for allowing me the privilege to appear virtually…

Last month, several experts and practitioners gathered on-line to reflect on the use of AI in managing pandemics as part of The Responsible AI Forum (Preview) — organized by the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (TUM, Munich), in close cooperation with the Global AI Ethics Consortium. I had the…

By Juliet McMurren and Stefaan G. Verhulst This article was originally published in Data & Policy, the peer-reviewed, open-access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges. If data is the “new oil,” why isn’t it flowing? For almost two decades, data management in fields…

Why We Need an Open Data Policy Lab The belief that we are living in a data age — one characterized by unprecedented amounts of data, with unprecedented potential — has become mainstream. …

To see the potential of data, we need to tap into the wisdom of bilinguals (Reposted from apolitical) “If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the questions, and only five minutes finding the answers,” is a famous aphorism attributed to Albert Einstein. Behind this quote is an important insight about human nature: Too often, we leap…