Today the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society hosted a public event for Beth Simone Noveck’s new book, Smart Citizens, Smarter State. The event also convened a diverse set of researchers – including Network member Henry Farrell – to discuss the the use of “technologies of expertise” to improve governance.
Event description:
Government “of the people, by the people, for the people” expresses an ideal that resonates in all democracies. Can we get closer to this ideal using new technologies of engagement?
Can institutions built around closed forms of expertise open up and benefit from petitions, crowdsourcing, and wikis to improve how governments work? Beth Noveck will discuss these questions and read from her new book, Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing. Noveck is the founding director of the GovLab at NYU and was the first Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States and is a former director of the White House Open Government Initiative.
Event participants:
- Tanja Aitamurto, Deputy Director at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University
- Lucy Bernholz, Senior Scholar at Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and co-led of the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab
- Rodrigo Davies, Chief Product Officer at Neighborly
- David Erickson, Director, Center For Community Development Investments, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Henry Farrell, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University
- Dawn Garcia, Managing Director of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at StanfordUniversity
- Kate Gasparro, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University Global Projects Center
- Liz Gerber, Associate Professor of Design at Northwestern University
- Ashish Goel, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
- Emi Kolawole, Lecturer at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University
- Helene Landemore, Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University Department of Political Science
- David Lee, PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
- Kim Meredith, Executive Director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
- Jacob Model, PhD candidate, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Beth Noveck, Co-Founder and Director of The GovLab at New York University
- Rob Reich, Faculty Co-director at Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, co-led Digital Civil Society Lab, and Professor of Political Science
- Khanh Russo, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation at Office of Mayor Sam Liccardo, City of San Jose
- Shireen Santosham, Policy Advisor, Director of Innovation at Office of Mayor Sam Liccardo, City of San Jose
- Marsha Semmel, Senior Advisor to the National Center on Science and Civic Engagement’s SENCER-ISE project
- Richard Swart, Alternative Finance, Crowdfunding and Emerging Capital Markets Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley
- Jessica Weare, Philanthropy and Civic Engagement Manager at Microsoft Bay Area
- Dobin Yim, Assistant Professor of Information Systems
