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From Russia with Love 19 Jun 2013 | 09:58 pm
A few days ago I gave a presentation on “Solving Public Problems with Crowdsourcing” for 80 assembled governors of the Russian Federation outside of Moscow at an event on Contemporary Management Techn...
Wiki Style Government 5 Jun 2013 | 06:26 pm
The Public Administration Select Committee of the UK Parliament issued a Report on Public Engagement in Policymaking calling for “wiki style” approaches to policymaking and creating greater engagement...
“Groupy Once More”: J. Richard Hackman on Group Behavior and Performance 3 Jun 2013 | 10:12 pm
This week family and friends of the late Richard Hackman, who passed away in January, gather in Cambridge, Massachusetts to celebrate his life and work. He devoted his career as a social and organizat...
IRS: Turn Over A New Leaf, Open Up Data 3 Jun 2013 | 10:08 pm
From the Forbes blog Co-authored by Stefaan Verhulst The core task for Danny Werfel, the new acting commissioner of the IRS, is to repair the agency’s tarnished reputation and achieve greater efficacy...
My Review: Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government 4 Mar 2013 | 06:23 am
Reposted from the San Francisco Chronicle, March 1, 2013 Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government By Gavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey (The Penguin Press; 249 pages; $25.9...
Riding on Exponentials: Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Urban Informatics : Interview with Dr. Steven Koonin 4 Mar 2013 | 04:59 am
It is not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities. President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, February 12, 2013 In this interview with Steve Koonin, Directo...
Representative Democracy for Facebook 9 Feb 2013 | 09:05 am
In a new essay from pioneering cyberlaw scholars David R. Johnson, David Post, and Marc Rotenberg entitled Governing Online Spaces, they argue that Facebook would benefit from user participation albei...
Liberating 990 Data 31 Jan 2013 | 08:42 pm
For more, see Noveck and Goroff, Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data. Link (PDF) Every year in the United States approximately 1.5 million registered tax-exempt organizations file...
Speed Dating for Social Change 31 Jan 2013 | 07:45 am
Today we had our first class of sixty unbelievably energized grad students and one brave undergrad in Gov 3.0 @ NYU. We got them out of their seats to meet one another and "speed date for social chang...
Government 3.0 26 Jan 2013 | 11:20 pm
The future of our society will depend on how we respond to the crisis of governance. Governance -- the way we provide public goods, services, and solve problems collectively -- is broken. Confidence i...
