The Governance Lab launches the GovLab Academy v. 1.0 ‘“ a community and platform for learning and teaching governance innovations.
Funded by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The GovLab Academy is a free, online community for those interested in teaching and learning how to open their institutions and work more collaboratively to solve public problems that improve people’ s lives. A partnership between The GovLab and MIT Media Lab’ s Online Learning Initiative, the site launching today offers curated videos, podcasts, readings and activities designed to enable the purpose driven learner to deepen his or her practical knowledge at her own pace.
The site features both curated content drawn from a variety of sources and original interviews with innovators from government, civil society, the tech industry, the arts and academia talking about their work around the world implementing innovations in practice, what worked and what didn’ t, to improve real people’ s lives.
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