2017

2017 Apr 12

Book Talk with Jorrit de Jong, Author of "Dealing with Dysfunction: Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector"

4:15pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Suite 200N, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge

Join us for a discussion with Jorrit de Jong, Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at HKS, Faculty Director of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, and author, "Dealing with Dysfunction: Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector." Julie Boatright Wilson, Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, HKS, and Matt R. Andrews
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS, will provide responses. Tony Saich, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, will moderate. 

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2017 Mar 03

Knowledge and Innovation: Building a Public Information Infrastructure

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North

Ash Center Student Speaker Series

This week's Student Speaker Series will take a close look at how innovation and technology can reach rural or impoverished communities. Taking a step beyond just broadband access, we'll explore what the tangible resources that access can bring to a community; from online education to vocation and tutorial content, rural connectivity is a tool to impact people's lives for the better.
 

Speakers:

Sukhman Randhawa, MC-Mason '17
Santiago Amador, MC-Mason '17

 

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2017 Mar 28

Health and Urban Resilience: Understanding Health Equity in the City

4:15pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200N

You are invited to a discussion with Jason Corburn, a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. He directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development and the Center for Global Healthy Cities

Cities can be the ‘start-up’s for a new urban politics in America that transforms entrenched divisions based on race, immigration status and economic inequalities. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the City of Richmond, CA,...

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