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Recoding America : why government is failing in the digital age and how we can do better / 1st ed

Recoding America : why government is failing in the digital age and how we can do better / 1st ed

Material type
단행본
Personal Author
Pahlka, Jennifer.
Title Statement
Recoding America : why government is failing in the digital age and how we can do better / Jennifer Pahlka.
판사항
1st ed.
Publication, Distribution, etc
New York :   Metropolitan Books :   Henry Holt and Company,   2023.  
Physical Medium
xii, 319 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN
9781250266774
요약
"A bold call to reexamine how our government operates-and sometimes fails to-from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America. 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"--
Content Notes
Introduction : beyond Schoolhouse Rock! -- Archaeology -- Seventeen years -- Concrete boats -- Friendly fire -- The Kodak curse -- Operational in nature -- Stuck in peanut butter -- The procedure fetish -- The fax hack -- Byrne's law -- The insiders -- Up the waterfall -- What we believe matters -- Conclusion : for and by people.
Bibliography, Etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
Administrative agencies --United States --Data processing. Information storage and retrieval systems --Public administration --United States. Technology and state --United States.
Subject Added Entry-Geographic Name
United States --Politics and government --1989-.
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520 ▼a "A bold call to reexamine how our government operates-and sometimes fails to-from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America. 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"-- ▼c Provided by publisher.
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