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Connie Eaves, mother in life and science 10 Mar 2024 8:23 AM (last year)

An obituary for Dr. Connie Eaves, an amazing woman and mother.

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Covid-19: Lessons from and for Government Digital Service Groups 23 Apr 2020 6:35 PM (4 years ago)

This article was written by David Eaves, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Tom Loosemore, Partner at Public Digital, with Tommaso Cariati and Blanka Soulava, students at the Harvard Kennedy School. It first appeared in Apolitical. Government digital services have proven critical to the pandemic response. As a result, the operational pace of launching new […]

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Lecturing and Teaching Remotely — My Setup and Approach 21 Mar 2020 11:42 AM (5 years ago)

I just ran a workshop/facilitate this morning for a number of the Chief Digital Officers from several European capital cities to help them share best practices and shared challenges in their respond to COVID19. I very much enjoyed the session and my set up has me excited about how remote teaching can approximate the intimacy […]

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“They’ll Just Make It Illegal” 22 Jun 2018 11:54 AM (6 years ago)

Cryptocurrencies, Public Goods & the State Late last year, I and a colleague from HKS were meeting with a VC I’d gotten to know in San Francisco. As an opening salvo in the conversation, the VC asked us “aren’t you worried about a cryptocurrency making the US dollar obsolete?” I replied that if that such a […]

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The End of the Beginning of Digital Service Units 12 Jun 2018 6:13 AM (6 years ago)

Balancing Users, Platforms, and Buy-in Strategies for National Digital Teams This week, digital HKS is partnering with Public Digital to convene digital services units from around the world. We will talk about what is and, more importantly, what is not working, with their work. Our intention is to make this an annual gathering where digital service groups can exchange learnings, […]

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Teaching Policy People to Code at the Harvard Kennedy School 5 Jun 2018 11:04 AM (6 years ago)

Part 1: hypothesis & goals Context This summer, digital HKS is excited to launch an experimental pilot that will help MPP and MPA students at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS) learn Python. Over the next two to three months, we’ll share more details about this experiment: why we are running it, how we are going about […]

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Teaching Digital at the Kennedy School of Government: Part 6: Bringing it Together 14 Aug 2017 10:45 AM (7 years ago)

Okay, so to recap, here at the Kennedy School of Government I’m interested in the social, economic and policy changes brought about by the way digital technologies expand or threaten how we can solve problems, relate to one another, and reimagine institutions and the world. We have a range of students who fall into three broad […]

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Teaching Digital at the Kennedy School of Government: Part 5: Foundational Topics 14 Aug 2017 10:40 AM (7 years ago)

One challenge I’ve observed about how digital technologies are taught at most schools of policy or government is it takes a relatively ad hoc approach. It is a mix of courses that emerge due to either student demand or faculty interest. To be fair, this is often better than nothing, but it offers little in […]

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Teaching Digital at the Kennedy School of Government: Part 4: The Trap — Teaching Tech and Concepts 14 Aug 2017 10:35 AM (7 years ago)

Before talking about the framework for thinking about digital at the Harvard Kennedy School, I want to discuss what we aren’t doing. I do this because I frequently get asked by students and others to respond to needs that I think are poorly articulated. I believe we should listen to users (students) but that doesn’t […]

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Teaching Digital at the Kennedy School of Government: Part 3 – Our Users and What They Need 14 Jun 2017 10:08 AM (7 years ago)

Focusing on the User: Who Policy Schools Teach While students from Schools of Policy and Government go on to do a variety of work, whether in the private, nonprofit or for profit sector, most will take a role in one of three functional areas: Politics, Administration/Operations and Public Policy. Like with much in life, there […]

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