beth noveck
intro’d to Beth via Benjamin‘s book.
Beth is founder of the govlab.
2012 tedglobal:
Voting once every four years … is a rather anemic and thin way, in this era of social media, for us to actually express our values.
channeling flow…
what can replace what we have today.. what comes directly after the arab spring..
how to open up the api of govt..
The next great superpower is going to be the one who can successfully combine the hierarchy of institution … with the diversity and the pulsating life and the chaos and the excitement of networks.
tap into youth..
even beyond write society… jack et al.. in the city. as the day.
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find/follow Beth:
Beth Simone Noveck was the United States deputy chief technology officer for open government and led President Obama’s Open Government Initiative. Based at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy until January 2011, she is an expert on technology and institutional innovation. On May 16, 2011 George Osborne announced that Noveck had been recruited to a position in the United Kingdom government.
She is the author of the book Wiki Government, a book that argues in favor of utilizing Internet technologies to make the U.S. federal government more transparent in its activities more open to citizen input
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summer 2015 – panel debating internet fail of utopia
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dec 2015
Everyday, millions of people use apps like Tinder to find a romantic match. What if governments used similar technology to match the skills of citizens with the most pressing challenges of our time?
spot on.. nice.
we just have to make sure … they’re the most pressing challenges (needs) of our time.. no?
The federal government already turns to the public for help online.Challenge.gov, which celebrated its fifth anniversary this fall, showcases requests by government agencies to the public to tackle hard problems in exchange for cash prizes and other incentives.
and.. not for cash or other incentives… no?
Since its inception in 2010, federal agencies have run more than 450 challenges, turning to the public to help ameliorate problems such as decreasing the “word gap” between children from high-and low-income families or increasing the speed at which saltwater can be turned into fresh water for farming in developing economies.
perhaps proof that incentives.. agendas.. (ie: assumed challenges) won’t work.. should have happened already.. no?
Yet as appealing as such an open call might be for tapping into the ideas of smart and willing citizens, it will never transform how we govern. That’s because this typical crowdsourcing method fails to use what dating websites have long done: match individuals to what matters to them or, in this case, match people to problems based on what they can do.
indeed. that match.. (to what matters to them)
matching people to problems based on what they can do.. doesn’t work today.. because.. ie: most people are other people… so not doing what matters.. doing what supposed to do.. which here.. becomes what they can do
Luckily, there are more systematic ways to use matching technology to help identify skills among the general public. Tools, such as LinkedIn, which make knowhow more searchable, are becoming increasingly prevalent.
whoa.
Such tools do more than catalog credentials. The internet is radically decreasing the costs of identifying diverse forms of expertise so that the person who has taken courses on an online learning platform like Coursera or Udacity can showcase those credentials with a digital badge.
oh my.
With the launch of SkillFinder, the bank is just beginning to explore how to use the tool to better organize its human capital to achieve the bank’s mission of eradicating poverty
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Many employers are anyway turning to new technology to match employees (and would-be employees) with the right skills to available jobs.
great… unless.. jobs that are really irrelevant..
the need for a do-over – vinay’s roadblock ness..
More tech companies also need to build a wider variety of matching tools to tap talent reliably in the public interest. Bill and Melinda Gates, for example, committed to support the creation of a global database of citizen skills.
The most important first step to match people to public service intelligently is for government to take citizen expertise seriously and ask for help. Only then does participation have the potential to become robust and commonplace – and citizenship have the potential to become more active and meaningful.
the most important first step.. to take citizen expertise seriously and ask for help..?
rather.. let’s do this first: free art-ists… so we can make sure what we’re calling public service is what we need..
a story about people grokking what matters.. not fitting into assumed public service roles.. no?
perhaps 1st step: mechanism to help grok what matters. perhaps matching to irrelevant s not deep enough.
be you. 