Beth Simone Noveck is a Professor of Law. She served in the White House as United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer (2009-2011) and leader of the White House Open Government Initiative (@opengov). As a result of the Administration’s Open Government efforts, today every department and agency has an Open Government Plan that outlines specific and innovative commitments to create more effective government. Also hundreds of thousands of collections of government information are now freely available to the public on the Web and citizens have burgeoning opportunities to use new platforms to participate in their democracy.
Dr. Noveck served
on the Obama-Biden Transition Team and was
a volunteer advisor to the Obama for America campaign on issues of
technology, innovation, and government reform.
She focuses her
scholarship, activism and teaching on the future of democracy in the 21st
century. Specifically, her work addresses how digital networks impact
institutions and how we can use such technologies to strengthen democratic
culture. With the support of the MacArthur Foundation in 2011-12, she is
developing an agenda for interdisciplinary research on institutional
innovation.
She founded the Democracy Design Workshop Do Tank, a program for the design of
law, policy, and technology to foster openness and collaboration. She
envisions the opportunity for institutional innovation as a series of
solvable design problems. Together with students at New York Law School
and with the support of the Omdiyar Network, MacArthur Foundation and
seven leading patent-holding firms, she designed and built the U.S.
government’s first expert network (http://www.peertopatent.org). The
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Council of Europe and AmericaSpeaks have
sponsored her research on online communities by funding then Cairns Project,
graphical software to support group formation and collaboration. She also
received a grant from ICAIR to support the creation of Democracy Island,
an experimental space within a virtual world for research on citizen
participation. She is currently working with colleagues inside government
and out on the design for “IOPedia,” a platform for mashing up
and visualizing public corporate accountability data and tracking the
evolution of organizations.
Dr. Noveck founded the State
of Play conference, the first (and still ongoing annual) conference on
videogames, virtual worlds and society. She was named “One of the Hundred Most Creative
People in Business” by Fast Company magazine and “One of the Top
5 Game Changers” by Politico in 2010. A graduate of Harvard
University and Yale Law School, she holds a PhD from the University of
Innsbruck and is the author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can
Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
(Brookings Institution Press 2009), which will appear this year in
Arabic and Chinese and in an audio edition (http://www.universitypressaudiobooks.com/detail.php/61),
and co-editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (NYU
Press 2006). She tweets @bethnoveck.
Upcoming Events:
March 4-5 Transportation Camp East
March 20-21 White House Open Government
Initiative/National Archives Conference on Open Government Research
Contact Information:
T: 212-431-2355
F: 212-791-2144
E: bnoveck@nyls.edu
O: 40 Worth, SE
938
Mailing Address: 47 Worth Street
Education:
Harvard, A.B. 1991 magna cum laude, A.M. 1992
Oxford, Rotary Foundation Doctoral Fellow 1993-94
University of Innsbruck, Ph.D. 1994, Fulbright Scholar
Yale Law School, J.D. 1997
Founding Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project.
Law Clerk, Hon. Leonard B. Sand, U.S. District Court, Southern District of
New York. Concentrates research on intellectual property, technology, and
constitutional law.
Courses:
At New York Law School since 2002
