Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government. Strata Summit 2011: Aneesh Chopra: Government's Big Data Opportunity. Paying Only for Success: Gamification in Government and Public Policy. In a government bureaucracy, any innovation can take years to come to fruition.
But that can change, says Tom Kalil, deputy director for policy for the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. Kalil recently participated in a two-day conference at Wharton titled, “For the Win: Serious Gamification,” which looked at the application of gaming techniques in business, education, government and other scenarios. Before the conference, Kalil spoke with Kevin Werbach, a conference organizer and a professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton, about why gamification has become a hot topic at the White House.
Technology In A Hurricane. As Hurricane Irene has now passed through the east coast — which just so happened to overlap with my brief trip to New York — the most common terms I’ve heard in response sound something like “overhyped” and “underwhelming.”
(All in all, that’s probably a good thing; the opposite would be much, much worse.) With that lens, however, we risk glazing over the nitty gritty of the weekend — that is, what was done to prepare, manage, and respond to the storm. What’s Your Economic Outlook? - Interactive Feature.