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Many of our current public institutions are trying to solve today\\u2019s problems by using outdated, cumbersome tools of the past. It\\u2019s no wonder that many of our public institutions are failing; the tools needed to tackle the complex societal challenges of today, from climate change to systemic racism, require a long-overdue upgrade.

In\\xa0Solving Public Problems, author Beth Simone Noveck offered a radical but practical rethinking of the tools that public servants, students, activists, and leaders need in a 21st-century world. By taking advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom of communities, Noveck showed us that there\\u2019s a better way forward to solve contemporary problems.

Noveck drew on lessons learned from decades of advising global leaders, along with original interviews and surveys of thousands of public problem solvers. The result is a useful framework for why and how we can use data and technology to improve the effectiveness of policies, laws, and public institutions working for the people.

Beth Simone Noveck\\xa0is a professor at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Family Center for Social Change and Impact and its partner project,\\xa0The Governance Lab\\xa0(The GovLab) and its MacArthur Research Network on\\xa0Opening Governance. She is also Core Faculty at Institute for Experiential AI (IEAI) at Northeastern. New Jersey governor Phil Murphy\\xa0appointed\\xa0her as the state\\u2019s first Chief Innovation Officer and Chancellor Angela Merkel named her to her\\xa0Digital Council\\xa0in 2018.\\xa0Previously, Beth served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and director of the White House\\xa0Open Government Initiative\\xa0under President Obama. UK Prime Minister David Cameron\\xa0appointed her\\xa0senior advisor for Open Government.\\xa0In addition to\\xa0Solving Public Problems, Beth is the author of\\xa0Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing\\xa0(Harvard Univ Press 2015) and\\xa0Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful\\xa0and co-editor of\\xa0The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds. Her TED talk is\\xa0here,\\xa0and she tweets\\xa0@bethnoveck.

Eric Klinenberg\\xa0is Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of\\xa0Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life,\\xa0Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone,\\xa0Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America\\u2019s Media,\\xa0and\\xa0Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, as well as the editor of\\xa0Cultural Production in a Digital Age, co-editor of\\xa0Antidemocracy in America, and co-author, with Aziz Ansari, of the New York Times #1 bestseller\\xa0Modern Romance.\\xa0His scholarly work has been published in journals including the\\xa0American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and\\xa0Ethnography, and he has contributed to\\xa0The New Yorker,\\xa0The New York Times Magazine,\\xa0Rolling Stone, and\\xa0This American Life.

Buy the Book: Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World (Hardcover)\\xa0from Third Place Books

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