Jennifer Pahlka — Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better - with Anne-Marie Slaughter - Бесплатная аудиокнига

Just when we most need our government to work--to decarbonize our infrastructure and economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to defend ourselves against global threats--it is faltering. Government at all levels has limped into the digital age, offering online services that can feel even more cumbersome than the paperwork that preceded them and widening the gap between the policy outcomes we intend and what we get.

But it's not more money or more tech we need. Government is hamstrung by a rigid, industrial-era culture, in which elites dictate policy from on high, disconnected from and too often disdainful of the details of implementation. Lofty goals morph unrecognizably as they cascade through a complex hierarchy. But there is an approach taking hold that keeps pace with today's world and reclaims government for the people it is supposed to serve. Jennifer Pahlka shows why we must stop trying to move the government we have today onto new technology and instead consider what it would mean to truly recode American government.

Jennifer Pahlka is the founder of Code for America, a nonprofit that works to bring the values of the digital era to the public sector, and the former Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States. While at the Obama White House, she founded the United States Digital Service, an elite corps of technologists devoted to improving government operations. Pahlka is the winner of a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a David Packard Award, and the Oxford Internet Institute’s Technology and Society Award, and has been selected by Wired magazine as one of the people who have most shaped technology and society in the past twenty-five years.

Pahlka will be in conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter. Slaughter is the CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing the promise and national ideals of the United States through structural political reform, an overhaul of the American education system, a focus on family security and wellbeing, technology that serves democracy, and a new global politics focused on people and planet. She is also the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she was the dean of the School of Public and International Affairs from 2002–09. From 2009–11, Slaughter served as director of policy planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Slaughter has authored or edited nine books, including The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World (Yale, 2017), Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family (Random House, 2015), The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World (Basic Books, 2007), and A New World Order (Princeton, 2004), as well as over 100 scholarly articles. She was the convener and academic co-chair, with John Ikenberry, of the Princeton Project on National Security, a multi-year research project aimed at developing a new, bipartisan national security strategy. Her 2012 article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” in The Atlantic became the magazine’s most-read piece and reopened a debate on ongoing obstacles to gender equality. Slaughter is a contributing editor to the Financial Times and writes a bi-monthly column for Project Syndicate. She is married to Professor Andrew Moravcsik; they have two sons.