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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code Rules as Code Community of Practice
The DBN’s Rules as Code Community of Practice (RaC CoP) creates a shared learning and exchange space for people working on public benefits eligibility and enrollment systems — and specifically people tackling the issue of how policy becomes software code. The RaC CoP brings together cross-sector experts who share approaches, examples, and challenges. Participants are from state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal government agencies, nonprofit organizations, academia, and private sector companies. We host recurring roundtable conversations and an email group for asynchronous updates, insights, and assistance.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code Understanding Law as Code
This course from the European Commission aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of Law as Code and its relationship to digital-ready policymaking.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code A cost/benefit analysis of a Rules as Code-enabled transformation
This piece explores an example cost/benefit analysis of a Rules as Code-enabled transformation.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code Rules as Code – Delivering a personalised citizen experience for GovCMS
Demo and explainer video of the Australian government's implementation of rules as code as part of their enterprise content management platform.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code Rules as code: Seven levels of digitisation
This report, written for practitioners, classifies “digital transformation” of legal rules into a hierarchy of levels to help establish common terms.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code Creating Open Source Legislation as Code
In this presentation, Pia Andrews explores how open source legislation as code can be a public utility to increase transparency, and enable better implementation and testing of government systems.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code Helping People with Low Incomes Navigate Benefit Cliffs: Lessons Learned Deploying a Marginal Tax Rate Calculator
This report details findings and lessons from a project to develop a calculator to help people anticipate how a change in earnings from employment would affect their net income and information on their estimated effective marginal tax rate.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code Benefit Cliffs Calculator
The Benefit Cliffs Calculator helps case managers and public benefit recipients to prepare for benefit cliffs (i.e., declines in benefits due to an increase in earnings). It compares the net resources and benefits available to families under different employment scenarios.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code Exploring Rules Communication: Moving Beyond Static Documents to Standardized Code for U.S. Public Benefits Programs
This brief analyzes the current state of federal and state government communication around benefits eligibility rules and policy and how these documents are being tracked and adapted into code by external organizations. This work includes comparisons between coded examples of policy and potential options for standardizing code based on established and emerging data standards, tools, and frameworks.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code Digital Legal Systems Lab
A vision for place for collaborating on digital law and policy grounded experimentation, case studies ,and moving beyond the theoretical.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code A Love Letter to the Parliamentary Counsel of the World
A communication piece illustrating the need for a small addition to how government publishes legislation. Examples given for EU and New Zealand law.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code Blawx
Blawx is a prototype platform for user-friendly rules as code online. It includes an example encoding of portions of Canada's Old Age Security Act.