| #733348 in Books | HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS | 2015-11-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x1.40 x5.80l,.0 | File type: PDF | 368 pages | HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Informative and inspiring look at the power of "Institutional Reinvention"|By Pallas Hupe Cotter, Author of Discovering Yourself in New Zealand|In preparation for an interview I did with Beth Simone Noveck this year, I read this book as background research. While not all may agree with her impassioned argument for transparency, she paints a picture that inspires hope that is es||New peer-to-peer technology platforms have radically democratized how information spreads, how capital flows, and even how cabs get hailed in the twenty-first century. But our government itself remains a largely closed system, with relatively few opportunities
Government “of the people, by the people, for the people” expresses an ideal that resonates in all democracies. Yet poll after poll reveals deep distrust of institutions that seem to have left “the people” out of the governing equation. Government bureaucracies that are supposed to solve critical problems on their own are a troublesome outgrowth of the professionalization of public life in the industrial age. They are especially ill-suited to c...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing | Beth Simone Noveck. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
