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What is the
100 Questions Initiative?
The 100 Questions Initiative seeks to map the world’s 100 most pressing, high-impact questions that could beanswered if relevant datasets were leveraged in a responsible manner. The 100 Questions is an InitiativefromThe GovLab, in partnership with Schmidt Futures and others.
Why do we need 100 questions?
The complexity of challenges facing our world today - from climate change to the reinvention of work toeconomic inequality to mass migration - is unprecedented, and our policymaking and problem-solvingapproaches are insufficient. We need both innovative solutions and innovation in how we developsolutions.
Data held by private-sector entities can be leveraged to provide public value
Data has been widely recognized as a possible source of innovation, and data collaboratives offer aparticularly promising avenue. Data collaboratives are a new form of public-private partnership, in which dataheldby private-sector entities is leveraged in a responsible and ethical manner to provide public value.
Data held by private-sector entities can be leveraged to provide public value
The 100 Questions will help us understand the questions that matter
Yet despite the clear potential of private-sector data, its impact has been limited to date. This isprimarily because we don’t fully understand how it can best be used. We don’t have an authoritative listof challenges facing our society that would be amenable to data solutions. This is where the 100Questionscome in. The 100 Questions will help us understand our most important public dilemmas and the mostvexingproblems we face across sectors and geographies. They will help us establish priorities, so that we maymake the most of scarce public resources.
How will we source
100 Questions?
We will capture the 100 Questions by creating and sourcing curated communities of “bilinguals” from aroundthe world – practitioners across fields who possess both domain knowledge and data science expertise. Inparticular, our methodology comprises the following:
About the GovLab
The Governance Lab (GovLab), based at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, seeks to improve people’s lives bychanging how we govern using new technologies. In recent years, The GovLab has pioneered the concept andpractice of Data Collaborativesand has initiated a network of Data Stewards – decision-makers from across the private sector seeking ways to maximizethe public value of their company’s data. The 100 Questions Initiative builds on The GovLab’s Smarter Crowdsourcingmethodologythat seeks to match societal problems with diverse ideas from curated global experts. The 100 QuestionsInitiative will take a similar but updated approach to engage relevant bilinguals across domains and aroundthe world.
