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Host Carol Castiel speaks with the director of the “Governance Lab” and Northeastern University professor, Beth Simone Noveck, about her new book “Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World.” On this encore edition, Noveck tells VOA that citizens and governments can leverage digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of communities to create solutions to contemporary problems from the Covid-19 pandemic to climate change to social inequa...

Host Carol Castiel speaks with the director of the “Governance Lab” and Northeastern University professor, Beth Simone Noveck, about her new book “Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World.” On this encore edition, Noveck tells VOA that citizens and governments can leverage digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of communities to create solutions to contemporary problems from the Covid-19 pandemic to climate change to social inequa...

New tools and technology policy might help, but politics come first.

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021 The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021 by Kathryn Haviland 30 Jun 2021|by Kathryn Haviland Looking for your next beach read? HBS faculty members share their summer reading lists, pulling from the worlds of technology, history, and science fiction. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I recently read When They Call You a Terrorist, a deeply powerful memoir by Patrisse Cullors, the founder of the Bla...

One that will throw you to the side when you go through problems, clive davis was there, deserves a lot of credit for staying with whitney, and i think he was rare in that respect. >> he certainly was. when you think she had dionne warwick as her aunt, enjoyed a huge career, her mother, cissy houston, legendary gospel singer, they had careers. they havent had any sort of public problems. what lessons did whitney not learn? >> well, i dont know. i think a lot of their careers might have been befo...