PolicyEngine is a nonprofit that provides a free, open-source web app enabling users in the US and UK to estimate taxes and benefits at the household level, while also simulating the effects of policy changes. By combining tax and benefits data, PolicyEngine helps individuals and policymakers better understand the impacts of existing policies and proposed reforms, using microsimulation models built from legislation and enhanced survey data.
This review evaluates the UK public sector's use of digital technology, identifying successes and systemic challenges, and proposes reforms to enhance service delivery.
The Public Design Evidence Review examines how design practices can improve public policies and services across the UK, exploring what good “public design” looks like, how it’s being used, and what enables or inhibits its impact.
This report explores the role that academic and corporate Research Ethics Committees play in evaluating AI and data science research for ethical issues, and also investigates the kinds of common challenges these bodies face.
User research requires working as a team, since it necessitates running sessions with participants, observing and moderating research sessions, analyzing and synthesizing results, as well as communicating results effectively.
The article examines the impact of digital interfaces on welfare state administration, focusing on the UK's Universal Credit system and the design elements that shape user interactions and behavior in an "interface first" bureaucracy.
This policy brief explores how public procurement can serve as a primary demand-side driver to establish digital sovereignty across the European Union.
A catalogue to help teams design trustworthy services that work for people. Categories including informing decisions, signing into services, giving and removing consent, and doing security checks.
These guidelines provide UK government organizations with best practices for responsibly and effectively procuring artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
This hub introduces the UK government's Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS), a structured framework for public sector bodies to disclose how they use algorithmic tools in decision-making.
