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“Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change
happen.”—Barack Obama A powerful new blueprint for how
governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital
technology to help solve the most serious problems of the
twenty-first century As the speed and complexity of the world
increases, governments and nonprofit organizations need new ways to
effectively tackle the critical challenges of our time—from
pandemics and global warming to social media warfare. In Power to
the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank describe a
revolutionary new approach—public interest technology—that has
the potential to transform the way governments and nonprofits
around the world solve problems. Through inspiring stories about
successful projects ranging from a texting service for teenagers in
crisis to a streamlined foster care system, the authors show how
public interest technology can make the delivery of services to the
public more effective and efficient. At its heart, public interest
technology means putting users at the center of the policymaking
process, using data and metrics in a smart way, and running small
experiments and pilot programs before scaling up. And while this
approach may well involve the innovative use of digital technology,
technology alone is no panacea—and some of the best solutions may
even be decidedly low-tech. Clear-eyed yet profoundly optimistic,
Power to the Public presents a powerful blueprint for how
government and nonprofits can help solve society’s most serious
problems.
"Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change
happen."-Barack Obama A powerful new blueprint for how governments
and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help
solve the most serious problems of the twenty-first century As the
speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and
nonprofit organizations need new ways to effectively tackle the
critical challenges of our time-from pandemics and global warming
to social media warfare. In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson
McGuinness and Hana Schank describe a revolutionary new
approach-public interest technology-that has the potential to
transform the way governments and nonprofits around the world solve
problems. Through inspiring stories about successful projects
ranging from a texting service for teenagers in crisis to a
streamlined foster care system, the authors show how public
interest technology can make the delivery of services to the public
more effective and efficient. At its heart, public interest
technology means putting users at the center of the policymaking
process, using data and metrics in a smart way, and running small
experiments and pilot programs before scaling up. And while this
approach may well involve the innovative use of digital technology,
technology alone is no panacea-and some of the best solutions may
even be decidedly low-tech. Clear-eyed yet profoundly optimistic,
Power to the Public presents a powerful blueprint for how
government and nonprofits can help solve society's most serious
problems.
Hana Schank had never given much thought to her wedding, or to
marriage in general, for that matter. That, is until she found
herself newly engaged and trying to plan the Happiest Day of Her
Life: spending weeks crafting save-the-date cards, worrying
incessantly about every minute detail -- even matching her
cocktails to her wedding colors -- and obsessively reading Martha
Stewart Weddings magazine. Hana soon decides that if she is going
to follow traditions like wearing white and walking down the aisle
with flowers, she wants to know why. In her search, she turns up
several interesting wedding facts and ultimately casts a critical
eye on a $72 billion wedding industry that pressures women into
becoming obsessive-compulsive Bridezillas. Part confessional
memoir, part social critique, A More Perfect Union chronicles a
year of wedding planning, capturing as it does not only the
stresses but also the undoubted joys of becoming a bride.
Over the last sixty years, women's lives have transformed radically
from generation to generation. Without a template to follow women
make important decisions blindly, groping for a way forward,
winging it, and hoping it all works out. As they faced unexpectedly
fraught decisions about their own lives, journalists Hana Schank
and Elizabeth Wallace found themselves wondering about the women
they'd graduated alongside. What happened to these women who seemed
set to reap the rewards of second-wave feminism, on the brink of
taking over the world? So they tracked down their classmates and,
over several hundred hours of interviews, gathered and mapped data
about real women's lives that has been missing from our
conversations about women and the workplace.
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