"Solving Public Problems" by Beth Simone Noveck

Solving Public Problems A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World Beth Simone Noveck

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 27 Jul 2021
ISBN:: 9780300230154
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 448 pages: 235 x 156mm
Illustrations:: 9 b-w illus.
Sales territories:: World

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How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems

The challenges societies face today, from inequality to climate change to systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday’s toolkit. Solving Public Problems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of our communities to design and deliver powerful solutions to contemporary problems.

Offering a radical rethinking of the role of the public servant and the skills of the public workforce, this book is about the vast gap between failing public institutions and the huge number of public entrepreneurs doing extraordinary things—and how to close that gap.

Drawing on lessons learned from decades of advising global leaders and from original interviews and surveys of thousands of public problem solvers, Beth Simone Noveck provides a practical guide for public servants, community leaders, students, and activists to become more effective, equitable, and inclusive leaders and repair our troubled, twenty-first-century world.

Beth Simone Noveck directs The Governance Lab (The GovLab) and its MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance. She is a professor of technology, culture, and society at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. @bethnoveck and http://solvingpublicproblems.org/.