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Government
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How Local Municipalities Can Manage Themselves More Efficiently
Although the average person might assume a local municipality is more accessible to run than a large city,…
2021-03-17
The Countries With The Most Women In National Parliament
Today marks International Women’s Day, an important occasion to highlight key strides made by women around the world. Despite…
2021-03-08
How Are Governments Responding To The Coronavirus Pandemic?
Governments around the world resort to variations of response measures and policies to end COVID-19. With over four…
2020-05-15
Does Democracy Lead To Better Health?
A released report from V-Dem reveals a rather interesting insight on the global state of health. From their…
2020-02-27
Pathological Power: The Danger Of Governments Led By Narcissists And Psychopaths
After spending his early life suffering under the Nazis and then Stalin, the Polish psychologist Andrew Lobaczewski devoted…
2019-10-03
Combatting Climate Change Doesn’t Mean Abandoning Growth – But It Does Require Tough Choices
With the right combination of policies, we can increase living standards and mitigate global warming at the same…
2019-09-20
Protest Is Not Enough To Topple A Dictator: The Army Must Also Turn
What does it take to overthrow a dictator? Reflecting on this question in exile, Leon Trotsky wrote in…
2019-08-01
Who Really Pays For American Students To Go To College?
Individually, Americans spend a lot on higher education. Most undergraduates finish with about $30,000 in debt. It’s an…
2019-06-25
Five Reasons Why We Should Be Grateful To Donald Trump
People who are basically good sometimes cannot help doing evil. Conversely, an evil man cannot help doing some…
2019-06-08
How Cities Became The New Laboratories Of Democracy
The ascent of cities is real, though things may not be as rosy as some suggest. Everybody who…
2019-04-29
Power And Powerlessness In Global Cities
How does today’s globalization transform our perceptions of urban inequality and how do we respond to it? Inequality…
2019-04-09
A Constitution Should Help A Country Govern, Not Hobble It
The United States and India, two of the world’s largest and oldest democracies, are both governed on the…
2019-03-19
How Artificial Intelligence Is Already Changing Government
“We don’t have enough people to keep up.” “We have to go through miles of case law on…
2019-01-22
When The State Is Unjust, Citizens May Use Justifiable Violence
If you see police choking someone to death – such as Eric Garner, the 43-year-old black horticulturalist wrestled…
2018-12-11
Who Belongs In A City?
Underneath every shiny new megacity, there’s often a story of communities displaced. In this moving, poetic talk, OluTimehin…
2018-09-04
The Solution To Poverty Is Opportunity, Not Charity
Treating symptoms is not enough. When we fall ill, our bodies give us symptoms to signal to our brains…
2018-08-20
Why Politics Needs Hope (But No Longer Inspires It)
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, the word ‘hope’ was ubiquitous in Western politics. While its use…
2018-08-14
More Than Just Sanctuary, Migrants Need Social Citizenship
In 1975, the English author John Berger wrote about the political implications of immigration, at a time when…
2018-04-24
These Savvy Cities Are Using Tech To Spark Citizen Engagement
In the spring of 2017, the doors to a new type of community center swung open in Louisville,…
2018-02-26
The Top 10 Kingmakers Who Shaped The Course Of History
The term “kingmaker” is used to describe a person of power and influence who plays a pivotal role…
2018-01-25
Leading Mayors In America Weigh In On Our Future
Analyzing the “State of the City” speeches from urban leaders across the country gives a sense of the…
2017-07-08
A Smart City Is, Because Its People Are.
By 2030, 60 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in mega-cities. How all those people…
2017-02-22
A History Map Of The Rise & Fall Of U.S. Slavery
The historian and cartographer Bill Rankin visualizes the practice with a fresh approach. Although it was abolished in…
2016-04-29
Open Data/Open Government – What Should Cities Really Focus On?
I have heard a lot of talk in the last few years about open government and open data.…
2016-02-26
The Top 10 Reasons USA Is Becoming A Big Brother Society
In 1949, Eric Blair, known by the pen name of George Orwell, published 1984; a novel that has shown…
2016-01-25
Discover The Next Design Capital Of Asia
In a worldwide economy that’s increasingly idea-driven, design has found its place as an important enabler to promote…
2016-01-13
Wanted: More Women Running Our Local Government
The numbers have improved, but they need to be a lot better. It’s about organizational success. “When it…
2015-11-18
An Insightful Measure Of Progress & Equity In Cities
The unemployment rate for African American men and women in the U.S. is roughly double that of white…
2015-11-18
Strategies For Success With Government Mobile Apps
One of the most important things to consider when developing your mobile strategy is that most citizens are…
2015-11-13
10 Nations That May Go Extinct By 2115
It can often seem as though nations are permanent fixtures on the landscape, immovable, unchangeable, and enduring. If…
2015-10-07
Celebrate Constitution Day With USC
Congress designates Sept. 17 as a day to recognize the value and history of the guiding document. “We…
2015-09-17
Hey Siri, How Will Apple’s Big Announcements Affect Government?
Read on to see what Apple Watch OS 2, Apple TV, the iPad Pro, the latest iPhones and…
2015-09-10
How Data Analytics Help Cities Re-think People’s Health And Safety
In cities around the country, we’re seeing the beginning of fundamental change in how governments discharge their regulatory…
2015-08-24
The Top 10 Richest Cities With Serious Poverty Issues
The ten cities listed here are some of the richest and most cultured cities in the world. They…
2015-08-21
How Philly 311 Platform Comes With An Innovative Twist
Earlier this year, the city of Philadelphia – one of the communities in the City Accelerator’s first cohort…
2015-08-19
How Leaders Led The Example On Sustainable Urban Mobility
It takes a combination of citizen support and top-down vision to create meaningful change in a city. While…
2015-07-29
Why eGovernment Has Such A Long Way To Go
The video accompanying this story was produced for NIC in support of its Innovation Nation initiative. Two decades…
2015-07-21
How Governments Get Better With Citizen Engagement Platforms
Every year, more consumer technologies find their way into government agencies where they can help improve service delivery…
2015-07-17
Simon Anholt : Which Country Does The Most Good For The World?
“It’s an unexpected side effect of globalization: problems that once would have stayed local—say, a bank lending out…
2015-07-14
Three Ways To Transform Age-Old Town Hall Meetings
The common refrain from many citizens, from large metropolises to small rural farming communities, is that government leaders…
2015-06-16
Barcelona’s Quest To Become The Smartest City Of Them All
Barcelona has been named the Smartest City in the world for 2015, according to a February publication…
2015-06-03
Fast-Track Regeneration In Cities
London’s winning bid for the Olympic Games focussed as much on regeneration as on sporting spectacle. As part…
2015-05-09
Ten Things For The Perfect City
A hipster economy and celebrities misbehaving in public are also essential for the ideal city. For the Economist,…
2015-04-29
What Government Can Learn From The Culture Of Apple
It’s not about simply delivering services more efficiently. It’s about passion, surprise and invisible opportunities. Apple has been…
2015-03-10
DataViva, An MIT Media Lab Tool For Visualising Government Data
DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath…
2015-02-18