Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Please join us for the next presentation of the Ash Center's Comparative Democracy Seminar Series. Gustavo Flores-Macías is an Assistant Professor of Government and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Cornell University. His talk is entitled: "Building Support for Taxation in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Mexico."
Background In spite of the importance of taxation for political and economic development, we know relatively little about the conditions under which citizens might not exact a political cost on leaders...
Harvard Kennedy School Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
About the Speaker:
Anson Chanretired as the Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government in 2001, after nearly forty years of service. As Chief Secretary, she headed the 190,000-strong civil service. She was the first woman and the first Chinese to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong. During her career in the public service she was responsible, amongst other things, for development of Hong Kong’s economic infrastructure including the planning and construction of Hong Kong’s new international airport, which opened in July 1998, port expansion and deregulation of the telecommunications market.... Read more about Hong Kong and Mainland China, Uneasy Bedfellows
Many people think that civic work is all-or-nothing, and that working in the private sector means you cannot make an impact on the public sector. They are wrong! Solomon Kahn will tour participants around the massive universe of open government data--most of which lies in wait for a...
Symposium Transparencia: Open Data and Anticorruption in Latin America*
Co-Hosted by: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School; Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Speakers: Richard Medina Gómez (MPP '17), Editor-in-Chief, Latin American Policy Journal Caitlin Callahan (MPP '16), Managing Editor, Print, Kennedy School Review
Join the editorial staff from some of the Kennedy School's policy journals for a discussion of the impact, value, and audience. These students will highlight some of their journal's recent work, upcoming features, and discuss the role student policy journals play in the Kennedy School and the public discourse more...
Marci Harris will share frank lessons from her experience launching and scaling one of the first civic tech startups. The workshop will examine the leadership and strategic challenges facing a mission-driven, for-profit enterprise, from comparing funding models to measuring impact. Participants will...
Tiana Epps-Johnson will share her experience working on technology instruction and capacity building with the thousands of local government offices responsible for voting. Civic tech is at the frontier of the franchise: from ...