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Smart Citizens, Smarter State

The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing

Beth Simone Noveck

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ISBN 9780674286054

Publication Date: 11/02/2015

368 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Beth Simone Noveck is Jerry Hultin Global Network Professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab. She directs the Governance Lab.

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Visit smarterstate.org, the website for Smart Citizens, Smarter State
Read a Washington Post Q&A with Beth Simone Noveck on the Obama Administration’s goal of increasing transparency, and what has and has not worked
At policy network, read Noveck’s essay on the rise of the “citizen expert”
Read a discussion with Professor Noveck at Scenario, the magazine of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Read a profile of Noveck at Civil Service World
Read Noveck’s Guardian piece on how Tinder-like apps can be used to harness the skills of the citizenry in service to the public good
Read Noveck’s Forbes and Medium columns on the use of technology to solve complex problems of government and society
Watch or listen to Noveck’s RSA talk (similar to a TED talk) on peer-to-peer technologies
Watch Noveck lecture at the Institute for Government, London, and view her slides from the talk, titled “Swipe Right to Fix the World: Tinder for Government”
Watch Noveck and Google’s Peter Barron debate Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society, and CNN columnist and techno-skeptic Andrew Keen, on the subject “Is the Internet a Failed Utopia?” at an event hosted by intelligence² and Vanity Fair
Watch Noveck’s 2012 TEDGlobal talk on connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, and creating a truly participatory democracy

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