Power to the Public
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 208
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank describe a revolutionary new approach—public interest technology—that has the potential to transform the way governments and nonprofits around the world solve problems.
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 400
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
In Smart Cities, Anthony M. Townsend documents this emerging futuristic landscape while considering the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of the key actors—entrepreneurs, mayors, philanthropists, and software developers—at work ...
Solving Public Problems
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 449
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
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 ...
Unpacking Fake News
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 177
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Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction : fake news and the imperative of civic education -- Wayne journell -- Why does fake news work? : on the psychosocial dynamics of learning, belief, and citizenship / H. James Garrett -- Real recognize ...
The Smart Enough City
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 241
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice ...