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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " All the talk of e-government, digital government, and open source government is really about employing the design method ," 2012 -- " Creating the right program vs. the hype of big data ," 2013 -- " Does the focus on big data mean we miss the opportunity for better use of "little data" ," 2015 -- " For a lot of "urban problems" the issue isn't (..)

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

This is unfortunate, as nonprofits are increasingly compensating for government failures, and becoming more rather than less relevant to the practice of Public Management in the process. This is true particularly in the current political climate of disinvestment in public services, and especially safety net programs.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

of monetary relief went to the Haitian Government, and yet that is exactly where responsibility for public services and safety lay. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp. Krimgold (eds) 2015. This was particularly true for donor-supplied shelter. i] Muggah, R. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii]

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