Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World

Beth Simone Noveck

ISBN 10: 030023015X / ISBN 13: 9780300230154

Published by Yale University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030023015X
• ISBN 13: 9780300230154
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 822 grams

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Synopsis

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems
 
“Bursting with sage, practical advice for public sector officials and civil society actors who want to engage citizens and give them more power.”—Glen Weyl and Henry Farrell, Boston Review
 
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.

About the Author

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/.