The Next Wave: Using Digital Technology to Further Social and Political Innovation

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Rowman & Littlefield, 1 jan 2012 - 219 pagina's

The digital revolution is in full force but many public and private sector leaders are stymied: How can they maximize the full potential of digital technology? This hesitancy puts a brake on the transformational power of digital technology and means private companies and governmental bodies fall well behind other digital pioneers.

Darrell West focuses on the next wave of technologies and how they can further enhance U.S. social and political innovation. West champions exploiting technological advances to help organizations become faster, smarter, and more efficient. Consumers can deploy new digital technology to improve health care, gain access to education, learn from the news media, and check public sector performance. New storage platforms such as high-speed broadband, mobile communications, and cloud computing enable and improve both social and economic development. However, to gain these benefits, policymakers must recognize the legitimacy of public fears about technology and the privacy and security dangers posed by the Internet. Their goal must be to further innovation and investment while also protecting basic social and individual values.

West argues that digital technology innovation is consistent in many ways with personal and social values; people can deploy digital technology to improve participation and collaboration, and political leaders can work with the private sector to stimulate a flowering of innovation in a variety of policy areas.

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A Framework for Analysis
1
Improving Government Performance
15
Transforming Health Care
26
Cloud Computing
45
HighSpeed Broadband
63
Innovating in the Public and Private Sectors
85
Mobile Communications
107
Personalized Medicine and Health Information Technology
123
New Digital Media
145
Safeguarding Privacy and Security
171
Facilitating Innovation
185
Notes
197
Index
209
Back Flap
220
Back Cover
221
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Over de auteur (2012)

Darrell M. West is vice president of Governance Studies and director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution. Among his many previous books are Brain Gain: Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy and Digital Medicine: Health Care in the Internet Era, both published by Brookings, and Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance (Princeton).

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