LINKS: Live blogging the #GovLab Experiment: Making Engagement Work

A critical component of the first day of the #GovLab Experiment: Making Engagement Work are the six “labs” that will be taking place. Real-world change agents (government officials) will present pressing current problems to their multidisciplinary colleagues, who will spend five hours grappling with potential solutions to the problem. Once finished today, our volunteer coding corps will work around the clock to transform each group’s proposal into mockups and functioning prototypes by Friday morning.
Below, find links to each of our session live blogs, which will be maintained by volunteer students and curated by GovLab staff. Each problem is presented as a design challenge, following the prompt of “If only we knew…”:
Links to session live blogs:

1. How to find the people who know the most about a topic
2. How to produce data visualizations that motivate citizens to solve problems
3. How to define problems and ask questions to engage meaningfully with citizens
4. How to elicit what people in communities care about the most
5. How to create smarter cities from the bottom up
6. How to make government data more accessible and valuable for businesses and the public

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