Stephen Goldsmith

Stephen Goldsmith

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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At the forefront of urban innovation, my leadership at Harvard's Bloomberg Center for…

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  • A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance

    Brookings Press

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  • What Works Cities Certification: What Excellence Looks like in Local Government

    Bloomberg Philanthropies - What Works Cities & Harvard Kennedy School - Ash Center - Data-Smart City Solutions

    As part of the launch of a new certification program from Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities initiative that identifies and codifies cities' data-driven approaches, this report highlights success stories of participating cities.

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  • Tapping Private Financing and Delivery to Modernize America’s Federal Water Resources

    Harvard Kennedy School - Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

    A report highlighting how the private sector should be engaged to help address America’s aging water resource infrastructure.

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  • Predictive Analytics: Driving Improvements Using Data (English)

    Inter-American Development Bank

    This paper examines how officials can use properly analyzed historical data to look for patterns and trends to reorganize the way they deliver services, anticipate future events, and often even prevent potential problems.

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  • Predictive Analytics: Driving Improvements Using Data (Spanish)

    Inter-American Development Bank

    This paper examines how officials can use properly analyzed historical data to look for patterns and trends to reorganize the way they deliver services, anticipate future events, and often even prevent potential problems.

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  • Restoring Trust in the Responsive City

    University of Pennsylvania Law School - Journal of Law and Public Affairs

    Local government is not broken, just burdened. The obsolete rules and regulations discussed here make the conceptualization of alternatives difficult, creating tunnel vision for what is possible and a decrease of overall trust in governments. This article argues for the creation of new standards that respond to these conditions, specifically through “Regulation 2.0,” an accountability model based on adept use of data.

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  • The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance

    Wiley

    The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities. Featuring vivid case studies highlighting the work of pioneers in New York, Boston, Chicago and more, the book provides a compelling model for the future of governance. The book will help mayors, chief…

    The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities. Featuring vivid case studies highlighting the work of pioneers in New York, Boston, Chicago and more, the book provides a compelling model for the future of governance. The book will help mayors, chief technology officers, city administrators, agency directors, civic groups and nonprofit leaders break out of current paradigms to collectively address civic problems.

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  • Operational Excellence in Government

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    Operational Excellence in Government is led by Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Innovations in American Government Awards program and Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. The project identifies operational efficiency themes across state and local governments, and is supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and conducted in partnership with United States Common Sense, a nonpartisan nonprofit policy group dedicated to opening government data and resources to the public. By pinpointing…

    Operational Excellence in Government is led by Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Innovations in American Government Awards program and Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. The project identifies operational efficiency themes across state and local governments, and is supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and conducted in partnership with United States Common Sense, a nonpartisan nonprofit policy group dedicated to opening government data and resources to the public. By pinpointing opportunities for cost savings, recommending proven efficiencies, and providing implementation guidance, the Operational Excellence in Government project is a central resource for public-sector excellence.

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