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'''Beth Simone Noveck''' (born 1971) is a professor in Technology, Culture, and Society at [[New York University]]’s [[New York University Tandon School of Engineering | Tandon School of Engineering]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty |url=https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/beth-simone-noveck |website=Tandon School of Engineering College Website |publisher=New York University |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref> and director of the [[The_GovLab | Governance Lab]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Team |url=http://www.thegovlab.org/team.html |website=The GovLab website |publisher=The Governance Lab |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref> and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. She is an inaugural ICMA Local Government Research Fellow<ref>{{cite web |title=ICMA Announces Inaugural Group of Research Fellows |url=https://icma.org/articles/article/icma-announces-inaugural-group-research-fellows |website=International City Management Association |publisher=ICMA |accessdate=17 April 2019}}</ref>. She is also an affiliated professor at NYU’s [[Center for Urban Science and Progress]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty |url=https://cusp.nyu.edu/people/faculty/ |website=CUSP Department Website |publisher=New York University |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref> and Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at [[Rutgers University]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Beth Simone Noveck Appointed Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow |url=https://www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/newsroom/beth-simone-noveck-appointed-visiting-senior-faculty-fellow |website=EJB School of Planning and Public Policy website |publisher=Rutgers University |accessdate=18 April 2019 |date=08/16/2018}}</ref>, a Fellow at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge<ref>{{cite web |title=People |url=https://ipk.nyu.edu/people/ |website=IPK Department Website |publisher=NYU |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref> and a Senior Fellow at the [[Yale Law School]] [[Information Society Project]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Beth Noveck |url=https://law.yale.edu/beth-noveck |website=Yale Law School Department Website |publisher=Yale University |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref>.
'''Beth Simone Noveck''' (born 1971) is a professor in Technology, Culture, and Society at [[New York University]]’s [[New York University Tandon School of Engineering | Tandon School of Engineering]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty |url=https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/beth-simone-noveck |website=Tandon School of Engineering College Website |publisher=New York University |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref> and director of the [[The_GovLab | Governance Lab]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Team |url=http://www.thegovlab.org/team.html |website=The GovLab website |publisher=The Governance Lab |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref> and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. She is an inaugural ICMA Local Government Research Fellow<ref>{{cite web |title=ICMA Announces Inaugural Group of Research Fellows |url=https://icma.org/articles/article/icma-announces-inaugural-group-research-fellows |website=International City Management Association |publisher=ICMA |accessdate=17 April 2019}}</ref>. In 2018, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy appointed her as the state’s first Chief Innovation Officer<ref>{{cite web |title=New Jersey Hires GovLab Founder as Its First Chief Innovation Officer |url=https://www.govtech.com/pcio/articles/New-Jersey-Hires-GovLab-Founder-as-Its-First-Chief-Innovation-Officer.html |website=Government Technology |publisher=e.Republic |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref>. She is also an affiliated professor at NYU’s [[Center for Urban Science and Progress]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty |url=https://cusp.nyu.edu/people/faculty/ |website=CUSP Department Website |publisher=New York University |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref> and Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at [[Rutgers University]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Beth Simone Noveck Appointed Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow |url=https://www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/newsroom/beth-simone-noveck-appointed-visiting-senior-faculty-fellow |website=EJB School of Planning and Public Policy website |publisher=Rutgers University |accessdate=18 April 2019 |date=08/16/2018}}</ref>, a Fellow at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge<ref>{{cite web |title=People |url=https://ipk.nyu.edu/people/ |website=IPK Department Website |publisher=NYU |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref> and a Senior Fellow at the [[Yale Law School]] [[Information Society Project]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Beth Noveck |url=https://law.yale.edu/beth-noveck |website=Yale Law School Department Website |publisher=Yale University |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref>. She also serves as one of nine members of the Digitalrat, a council to advise German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel on issues concerning the digital transformation of society<ref>{{cite web |title=The faces behind the Digital Council |url=https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/issues/the-faces-behind-the-digital-council-1504894 |website=Press and Information Office of the Federal Government |publisher=German Government |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref>.


From January 2009 to January 2011, she was the United States deputy chief technology officer for open government and led [[Barack Obama|President Obama]]'s [[Open Government Initiative]]. She was based at the [[White House Office of Science and Technology Policy]], and served as an expert on governance, technology and institutional innovation.<ref>{{cite web |last=Montalbano |first=Elizabeth |url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/leadership/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000485 |title=White House Loses Open Government Leader |work=Information Week |accessdate=11 January 2011}}</ref> On May 16, 2011 [[George Osborne]] announced that Noveck had been recruited to a position in the United Kingdom government.<ref>[http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_48_11.htm Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, at Google Zeitgeist 2011]</ref> She is a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.<ref>https://www.ourinternet.org/#commission</ref> She is the author of Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government (Harvard 2015), Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings 2009), and co-editor of the State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds (NYU 2006).
From January 2009 to January 2011, she was the United States deputy chief technology officer for open government and led [[Barack Obama|President Obama]]'s [[Open Government Initiative]]. She was based at the [[White House Office of Science and Technology Policy]], and served as an expert on governance, technology and institutional innovation.<ref>{{cite web |last=Montalbano |first=Elizabeth |url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/leadership/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000485 |title=White House Loses Open Government Leader |work=Information Week |accessdate=11 January 2011}}</ref> On May 16, 2011 [[George Osborne]] announced that Noveck had been recruited to a position in the United Kingdom government.<ref>[http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_48_11.htm Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, at Google Zeitgeist 2011]</ref> She is a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.<ref>https://www.ourinternet.org/#commission</ref> She is the author of Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government (Harvard 2015), Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings 2009), and co-editor of the State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds (NYU 2006).

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Beth Noveck
Noveck in 2009
Born1971 (age 52–53)
Toms River, NJ
NationalityUnited States of America
Alma materHarvard, A.B. 1991, A.M. 1992

University of Innsbruck, Ph.D. 1994

Yale Law School, J.D. 1997
OccupationProfessor

Beth Simone Noveck (born 1971) is a professor in Technology, Culture, and Society at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering[1] and director of the Governance Lab[2] and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. She is an inaugural ICMA Local Government Research Fellow[3]. In 2018, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy appointed her as the state’s first Chief Innovation Officer[4]. She is also an affiliated professor at NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress[5] and Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University[6], a Fellow at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge[7] and a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project[8]. She also serves as one of nine members of the Digitalrat, a council to advise German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel on issues concerning the digital transformation of society[9].

From January 2009 to January 2011, she was the United States deputy chief technology officer for open government and led President Obama's Open Government Initiative. She was based at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and served as an expert on governance, technology and institutional innovation.[10] On May 16, 2011 George Osborne announced that Noveck had been recruited to a position in the United Kingdom government.[11] She is a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.[12] She is the author of Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government (Harvard 2015), Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings 2009), and co-editor of the State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds (NYU 2006).

Background

She graduated from Harvard University with an AM magna cum laude, and the University of Innsbruck with a Ph.D. She graduated from Yale Law School with a JD.

She directs The Governance Lab, also known as the Govlab and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance, which is designed to improve governance in governments and elsewhere.

She is currently the Jerry Hultin Global Network Professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. She was formerly the Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab. She is a professor of law at New York Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. She served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative (2009-2011). UK Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her senior advisor for Open Government, and she served on the Obama-Biden transition team. She’s also designed or collaborated on Unchat, The Do Tank, Peer To Patent, Data.gov, Challenge.gov and the Gov Lab’s Living Labs and training platform, The Academy.

She serves on the Global Commission on Internet Governance and chaired the ICANN Strategy Panel on Multi-Stakeholder Innovation. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Open Contracting Partnership. Since 2011, she has served as a Board Director of Cambia[13], the non-profit social enterprise that runs The Lens. She was named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy,[14] one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company[15] and one of the “Top Women in Technology” by Huffington Post.[16] She has also been honored by both the National Democratic Institute[17] and Public Knowledge[18] for her work in civic technology.

She is the author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful,[19] which has also appeared in Arabic, Russian, Chinese and in an audio edition, and co-editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds.[20] Her latest book Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing appeared with Harvard University Press in 2015.[21]

Previously, Noveck directed the Institute for Information Law & Policy and the Democracy Design Workshop at New York Law School where she is on-leave as a professor. She is the founder of the "Do Tank," and the State of Play Conferences, and launched Peer-to-Patent, the first community patent review project, in collaboration with the United States Patent and Trade Office. She has taught in the areas of intellectual property, innovation, and constitutional law, as well as courses on electronic democracy and electronic government.[22]

In August 2018 Noveck was nominated as one of ten members for the newly created Digitalrat, a council to advise the Federal government of Germany on issues concerning the digital transformation of society.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Faculty". Tandon School of Engineering College Website. New York University. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Team". The GovLab website. The Governance Lab. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  3. ^ "ICMA Announces Inaugural Group of Research Fellows". International City Management Association. ICMA. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  4. ^ "New Jersey Hires GovLab Founder as Its First Chief Innovation Officer". Government Technology. e.Republic. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Faculty". CUSP Department Website. New York University. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Beth Simone Noveck Appointed Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow". EJB School of Planning and Public Policy website. Rutgers University. 08/16/2018. Retrieved 18 April 2019. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "People". IPK Department Website. NYU. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Beth Noveck". Yale Law School Department Website. Yale University. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  9. ^ "The faces behind the Digital Council". Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. German Government. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  10. ^ Montalbano, Elizabeth. "White House Loses Open Government Leader". Information Week. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
  11. ^ Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, at Google Zeitgeist 2011
  12. ^ https://www.ourinternet.org/#commission
  13. ^ "Cambia Board". cambia.org. Retrieved 2019-02-06. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  14. ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. 26 November 2012. Archived from the original on 28 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ http://www.fastcompany.com/3018749/most-creative-people-2010/35-beth-simone-noveck
  16. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/beth-simone-noveck-former-technology-officer_n_931617.html
  17. ^ https://www.ndi.org/2013-democracy-dinner
  18. ^ https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/public-knowledge-presents-eighth-ip3-awards-to-wyden-noveck-jaszi
  19. ^ http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2009/wikigovernment
  20. ^ http://nyupress.org/books/9780814799727/
  21. ^ http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286054&content=toc
  22. ^ "Faculty Profile at New York Law School". New York Law School.
  23. ^ "Bundesregierung | Artikel | Die Gesichter des Digitalrates". www.bundesregierung.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-08-22.
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