Drawing Inspiration from the GovLab
MeWe Blog | July 1, 2014 | By Manik Suri In early 2013, I joined former US Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck to co-found a civic innovation platform called The Governance Lab (GovLab), aimed at using technology to transform governing institutions and improve individuals’ lives. Our motley crew of founders included a serial tech entrepreneur, […]
From Crowdsourcing Potholes to Community Policing
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University | Interoperability Case Studies | August 15, 2013 | By Manik Suri Open311 is a state-of-the-art technology platform that provides a uniform base to expand existing “311” services, which provide information tracking and monitoring in cities around the world. Over the past decade, these 311 services […]
National Security by the Numbers: Why We Should Redouble Efforts to Express Analytic Certainty
Harvard National Security Journal | September 3, 2012 | By Manik Suri Over the past decade, national security policymakers have encouraged greater use of numbers, probabilities and estimative language to enhance intelligence and improve decision-making. Such efforts should be praised, yet they suffer from serious shortcomings that still need to be addressed. Read the full […]