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Stephen Goldsmith
Verified
Host, Data-Smart City Pod
Cambridge
Beats
Biography
Project Director Stephen Goldsmith is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and the Director of the Innovations in American Government Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He previously served as Deputy Mayor of New York and Mayor of Indianapolis, where he earned a reputation as one of the country's leaders in public-private partnerships, competition, and privatization. Stephen was also the chief domestic policy advisor to the George W. Bush campaign in 2000, the Chair of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the district attorney for Marion County, Indiana from 1979 to 1990. He has written The Power of Social Innovation; Governing by Network: the New Shape of the Public Sector; Putting Faith in Neighborhoods: Making Cities Work through Grassroots Citizenship and The Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America. His latest book is The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance, coauthored with Susan Crawford.
Covers: higher education government courts k-12 education
Insurance, crime, death (with occasional exceptions).
Content
By Stephen Goldsmith| Government Technology Verified Municipal officials buying technology face privacy and security challenges compounded by the fact that GenAI derives its power from access to data located across agencies and sectors. Further aggravating this complexity is the asymmetry of expertise between the companies developing AI and the municipalities acquiring their products. Pooling resources will help cities move forward with more confidence and speed.
By Stephen Goldsmith| Government Technology Verified The fundamental importance of the tax system, its tentacles in so many agencies and its effect on every resident, makes it particularly ripe for total technological reform. Over the last several years, digitization allowed several cities to take steps forward in terms of customer service. The next set of reforms will be bolder thanks to new technologies that streamline processes through integration around place.
By Stephen Goldsmith| Government Technology Verified Rental companies and auto insurers already use telematics to provide incentives for safe driving habits based on information from in-vehicle monitoring devices that gather data from onboard GPS and diagnostics systems. Telematics that improve vehicle operation include information on speed, braking patterns, seatbelt use and acceleration.
Company Info
Data-Smart City Pod
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
+1 617-495-1000