The Responsive City

Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew cities and citizenship in America The Responsive City Engaging Communities Through Data Smart Governance The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in about technology and big data analytics with age old lessons of small group community input to create agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities Featuring vivid case studies highlighting the work of individuals in New York, Boston, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm, Indiana, and Chicago, the book provides a compelling model for the future of cities and states The authors demonstrate how digital innovations will drive a virtuous cycle of responsiveness centered on empowerment 1 empowering public employees with tools to both power their performance and to help them connect personally to those they service, 2 empowering constituents to see and understand problems and opportunities faced by cities so that they can better engage in the life of their communities, and 3 empowering leaders to drive towards their missions and address the grand challenges confronting cities by harnessing the predictive power of cross government Big Data, the book will help mayors, chief technology officers, city administrators, agency directors, civic groups and nonprofit leaders break out of current paradigms in order to collectively address civic problems Co authored by Stephen Goldsmith, former Mayor of Indianapolis, and current Director of the Innovations in Government Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and Susan Crawford, co director of Harvard s Berkman Center for Internet and Society The Responsive City highlights the ways in which leadership, empowered government employees, thoughtful citizens, and 21st century technology can combine to improve government operations and strengthen civic trust It provides actionable advice while exploring topics like Visualizing service delivery and predicting improvement Making the work of government employees meaningful Amplification and coordination of focused citizen engagement Big Data in big cities stories of surprising successes and enormous potential Best Download The Responsive City [ Author ] Stephen Goldsmith [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr The digital revolution is coming to municipal government, and Stephen Goldsmith s The Responsive City Engaging Communities Through Data Smart Governance is an outstanding introduction to the field In this brisk, balanced work Goldsmith sets the bar for learning about an understanding the wide array of opportunities and challenges that face City Hall in adapting to the rapidly changing digital landscape of modern society Perhapsimportant than the technological discussion, Goldsmith als The digital revolution is coming to municipal government, and Stephen Goldsmith s The Responsive City Engaging Communities Through Data Smart Governance is an outstanding introduction to the field In this brisk, balanced work Goldsmith sets the bar for learning about an understanding the wide array of opportunities and challenges that face City Hall in adapting to the rapidly changing digital landscape of modern society Perhapsimportant than the technological discussion, Goldsmith also discusses the human element, both in terms of the individuals pioneering this field as well as the benefits to the ultimate end user the People.Goldsmith is particularly strong in providing a contextual overview of some of the recent advancements made in various cities, gained by both victories and set backs in managing their data The examples shared in the book offer intriguing ...Good as a book to have around for reference, probably would be better in electronic format so I could ctrl f terms Each chapter covers a facet of their definition of a responsive city, which is a good concept I m going to run with.An excellent book that looks at how cities innovate through technology and use of Big Data to improve government and citizen participation There were a lot of great examples on how cities are giving its residents means to help improve city services and make local governmentaccountable and efficient It was really enlightening to see how cities are addressing now only the challenges of the 21st century but also the challenges of dealing with the costs and complexi...The technology use cases identified in this book were interesting and varied The authors focused mostly on activities in which they were personally or peripherally involved and at times, the language was self serving Overall though, the topics were interesting and the specific implementation d...Um texto com 180 p ginas mas poderoso.Faz o elogio dos dados como novo capital e a cidade como um ecossistema onde estes dados existem em modo natural e que resultam num ciclo virtuoso para a pr pria comunidade que utiliza os dados e os gera e que da sua partilha emerge o desenvolvimento do territ rio e da criatividade das pessoas que interagem nesse territ rio cidade.Os dois autores apresentam cap tulos pr prios para discutir e aprofundar as quest es que resultam da emerg ncia de dados a temp Um texto com 180 p ginas mas poderoso.Faz o elogio dos dados como novo capital e a cidade como um ecossistema onde estes dados existem em modo natural e que resultam num ciclo virtuoso para a pr pria comunidade que utiliza os dados e os gera e que da sua partilha emerge o desenvolv...Two academics with experience in government technology give case studies in how big cities engineered new systems that put data to use improving services Civil servants are framed as heroes turning around backwards bureaucracies, but many similar stories could also be told in corporate IT departments The book s a breezy read despite a few rough spots What exactly is a comfortable midwestern twang The authors have kind things to say about a client, the Smart Chicago Collaborative, and oth Two academics with experience in government technology give case studies in how big cities engineered new systems that put data to use improving services Civil servants are framed as heroes turning around backwards bureaucracies, but many similar stories could also be told in corporate IT departments The book s a breezy r...The reinvention of municipal leadership through technology that this book promises to share boils down to a smattering of case studies, lots of advocacy and little ambition Foreword by Michael Bloomberg, puff for the work of Bloomberg s time as mayor, puff for Bloomberg s urban consultancy, two pages of over 170 on privacy , nothing on inequality, nothing on the impact of Government shutdown and role of optimism in uptake and tick, zero on the implications of fast, fickle and mobile values on The reinvention of municipal leadership through technology that this book promises to share boils down to a smattering of case studies, lots of advocacy and little ambition Foreword by Michael Bloomberg, puff for the work of Bloomberg s ...Fascinating profile of a few innovators cities efforts who have put data at the heart of improving service provision, engaging citizens and empowering employees The authors create a lively picture of the characters a...I started with an expectation that this would be describing the standard kind of smart city approaches we have seen in many cities But Responsive City goes further aiming for aall encompassing decentralization of power and revolutionary...Excellent, interesting book capturing important new trends in use of open data and new uses of data across departments in cities Like other work by Goldsmith, lots of examples, small cases and simple, easy lessons Well worth the time for this short read

• English
• 08 September 2017
Stephen Goldsmith
• Hardcover
• 208 pages
• 1118910907
• Stephen Goldsmith
• The Responsive City