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by Beth Simone Noveck
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SMARTER STATE Connecting Expertise to Government Beth is the author of Smart Citizens Smarter State The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing Harvard Univ Press 2015 and Wiki Government How Technology Can Make Government Better Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful Brookings 2009 and coeditor of The State of Play Law Games and Virtual Worlds NYU Press 2005 Smart Citizens Smarter State The Technologies of Smart Citizens Smarter State The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing Beth Simone Noveck on FREE shipping on qualifying offers 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 Smart Citizens Smarter State The Technologies of Smart Citizens Smarter State The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing Kindle edition by Beth Simone Noveck Download it once and read it on your Kindle device PC phones or tablets Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading Smart Citizens Smarter State The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing Book Review Smart Citizens Smarter State The When Beth Simone Noveck recently visited London to launch her book Smart Citizens Smarter State The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing at a series of events it was not a big surprise to see huge crowds and toplevel interest from academics civil servants and politicians The former leader of President Obama’s Open Government Initiative the current Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance for the UK and the cofounder and director of The Smart Citizens Smarter State The Technologies of Offering a farreaching program for innovation Smart Citizens Smarter State suggests that public decisionmaking could be more effective and legitimate if government were smarter―if our institutions knew how to use technology to leverage citizens’ expertise Just as individuals use only part of their brainpower to solve most problems Smart Citizens Smarter State The Technologies of In a clear illustration of why “the perfect is the enemy of the good” as the old saying goes professional expertise often seems to interfere with more obvious informal and efficient solutions to public problems At least that’s the case that Beth Simone Noveck makes in Smart Citizens Smarter State Noveck believes that new technologies have great potential to improve governance but only if governments can draw from the “good” wisdom of informed crowds and not rely
