Programs

Three programs that make public decisions accountable.

IIBD works through three programs operating at the same level. Each applies data accountability to a different part of public decision-making, and each is home to focused initiatives.

These programs deliver across IIBD's two focus areas, so our public programs and our governance record describe the same work.

Automated Decisions & Public DataLived Environments

Audits & accountability

Public Decision Accountability

Reviews the data, rules, eligibility systems, and automated processes behind public decisions — and identifies where people are excluded, misclassified, screened out, or left without a way to challenge an outcome.

What it involves

Data, rule & eligibility-system reviews
Algorithmic & automated decision reviews
Mapping where people are screened out

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Community Data Innovation Lab

Capacity & practice

Community Evidence & Data Capacity

Helps community organizations collect, interpret, and use evidence without reproducing extractive or exclusionary practices — so data strengthens their work instead of burdening it.

What it involves

Inclusive data collection & intake design
Evaluation tools & reporting frameworks
Data literacy & capacity building

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Data to Power

Systems & place

Applied Systems Research

Examines how data systems affect specific areas — employment, housing, benefits, infrastructure, and services — especially where existing data misses lived experience.

What it involves

Place- & systems-based data projects
Housing, benefits & service-access reviews
Evidence briefs & community mapping

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Women, Work & Automated Opportunity Lived Environments & Public Systems

Women are affected by interconnected employment, caregiving, housing, benefits, and financing systems. Women, Work & Automated Opportunity examines how data and automated decision processes reproduce those barriers across systems.

Featured data view: The Housing Investment Gap in Canada's Metros — where housing need outruns subsidized supply across 41 census metropolitan areas.

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