RIPL is a tech-for-social-impact nonprofit that works with governments to help them use data, science, and technology to improve policy and lives. We equip our policy leaders to create policy that works; delivering measurable improvement per dollar spent for Americans in need.
Our scientists and policy experts partner with government leaders to frame their challenges, and develop and deliver the best science approach to solve them. Our technologists design databases, applications, and user experiences that make policy delivery effective and engaging. We partner with policymakers so that they can use data, science, and technology to positively impact lives, solve pressing social challenges, and build their own capacity to innovate and measure success going forward.
We work with our partners to identify their biggest policy challenges and deliver immediate solutions while building capacity for lasting change.
First, we deploy a RIPL-developed Research Data Lake of joined administrative data, which accelerates the delivery and reliability of insights, and supports broad-based partnerships to improve policy.
We design and launch scalable, data-driven applications that deliver effective policy to improve lives. Our solutions are driving measurable impact in unemployment insurance support, workforce development, education opportunity, and more. RIPL solutions are science-designed by leading researchers to meet beneficiaries where they are with effective, inspiring solutions that work for them.
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RIPL actively shares what we learn with the broader community, through scientific journal publications, white papers, policy briefs, conference proceedings, and webinars. Key RIPL publications include:
Brookings Institution: Hamilton Project
POLICY BRIEF 2019-01
Communications of the ACM
CACM, October 2019, Vol. 62 No. 10
Brookings Institution: Hamilton Project
POLICY BRIEF 2019-01
The Brookings Hamilton project published a 2019 proposal by RIPL Founder Dr. Justine Hastings on how states and government can achieve fact– and evidence-based policy using data, science and technology.
Communications of the ACM
CACM, October 2019, Vol. 62 No. 10
RIPL published research and an open-source tool to demonstrate how state and local government can unlock data and technology to drive fact-based policy.
Digital Government Research & Practice
Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2021
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNAS January 28, 2020 117 (4)
Digital Government Research & Practice
Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2021
RIPL published research describing how RIPL scientists and the State of Rhode Island developed a scalable cloud solution to bring emergency Unemployment Insurance benefits to Rhode Island during the COVID-19 pandemic, making Rhode Island the first state in the country to do so.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNAS January 28, 2020 117 (4)
RIPL published research in the National Academy of Sciences using administrative data and machine learning to demonstrate how government can support care providers and communities in reducing opioid misuse.
“Investing in data-driven and fact-based policy is vital to helping people in need. We need to be innovative and proactive in government to support our communities and families to the best of our ability. Our partnership with RIPL helps us use objective research and data at high speed so we can do just that. RIPL’s approach to data and science for social good could benefit local and state government throughout the country.”
“This technology promises to help job seekers elevate their career potential while making the hiring process timelier and more effective for employers,” said DWD Secretary Amy Pechacek. “[We will] go above and beyond our current career services by offering individual solutions in a way that’s accessible, equitable, and very user-friendly.”
In partnership with Natural Association of State Workforce Agencies and the NLx Research Hub, RIPL is thrilled to announce the release of Sockit, a new and open-source natural-language processing toolkit. Sockit determines the most likely SOC code for a free-text job title using National Language Processing and data science techniques, and is available to policymakers and researchers across the country. :
“We’re pioneering a first-of-its-kind data platform to connect job seekers to careers in our post-pandemic economy,” said Gov. David Ige in a press release issued by the HI Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. “Hawai?i is on the cutting edge, using widely available government data for a user-friendly program that creates highly customized job recommendations.”
The HI CAN platform, built and launched in partnership with RIPL, will help residents searching for a new job and those looking to transition careers, emphasizing supporting those receiving UI benefits for the next steps in their career journey.
SIRAD allows metrics to be quickly developed, put into practice by policymakers, and delivered directly to the public through web and mobile apps. As a central component of RIPL’s Research Data Lake solution, this resource is automated, sustainable, and owned by government. It increases government’s capacity to implement data-driven policy, partner with researchers to measure what works, and continually iterate and improve.
RIPL is a Technical Assistance Partner to the National Governors Association Workforce Innovation Network, a collaborative effort to help governors and states facilitate innovative, state-level policy solutions that improve employment and workforce outcomes.
RIPL is proud to work with states across the country to execute President Biden’s vision of improved customer experience of government services by making our programs easier to use, modernized, and transparent.
RIPL’s ‘Netflix for Jobs’ was highlighted by Politico staff this December as one of the 17 pandemic tech innovations that are here to stay for the better. The RIPL team is excited to continue partnering with innovative state leaders across the country to connect Americans with in-demand careers in 2022 using data, science, and cloud technology.
“Suzi’s deep cross-sector experience and career-long devotion to public service will help RIPL successfully achieve its mission to help government use data, science, and technoloy to improve lives,” said Dr. Justine Hastings, RIPL’s Board Chair.
The National Governors Association-Workforce Innovation Network (NGA-WIN) brought together this forward-thinking team to create an accessible, data-driven, and full-service government platform for job seekers and individuals eligible for supportive service benefits. This first-of-its-kind platform, called the Hawai’i Career Acceleration Navigator (HI CAN), will launch in early 2022.
“A new program, DOORS, that uses artificial intelligence and unemployment insurance data to match workers with training programs and new jobs, based on their past experience and which industries are expanding in their state, could help get more Americans back to work as they reconsider what they do to pay the bills, its creators say.”
RIPL is a Technical Assistance Partner to the National Governors Association Workforce Innovation Network, a collaborative effort to help governors and states facilitate innovative, state-level policy solutions that improve employment and workforce outcomes. Learn more about more about NGA WIN Here.
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