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COMMENTARY | A new book offers a roadmap for recruiting and training employees who can build bridges within government and across sectors.

Democracy means allowing everyday people to have their voices heard on public matters involving their communities. One of the goals of civic technology is to allow a more diverse group of people to have input on government affairs through the use of technology and the internet. Beth Noveck, author...

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

GovLab chief and author Dr. Beth Simone Noveck joins the podcast to discuss her new book.

A new book argues that federal and state governments need to articulate a vision for training their workers for problem solving in the 21st century.

1 Governance professor Beth Simone Noveck, who formerly served as the first White House deputy chief technology officer, believes that “public entrepreneurship” can counter the failures that have dominated public policy design in the United States since the 1960s. Her new book, Solving Public Problems, revisits the four stages of policy design—identifying problems, identifying solutions, designing for implementation, and evaluation and evolution—while identifying 20 crucial decisions t...