Designing a New City Operating System
Embracing Technology and Remaking Local Government
At a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective—indeed more effective and even more responsive to the needs of its citizens.
Join NYU Professor Neil Kleiman and Harvard Professor Stephen Goldsmith as they discuss their new book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings Institution Press, 2017). Based on decades of direct experience and years studying successful models around the world, the book assesses how digital innovations are producing more responsive and trustworthy local governance in cities—including right here in New York City. The authors propose a new operating system (O/S) for cities, building on the giant leaps that have been made in technology, social engagement, and big data.
The authors will be joined by a panel of fellow experts to discuss what it takes to make a new O/S a reality. This event is hosted by NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in collaboration with the Center for Urban Science and Progress and the Marron Institute of Urban Management.
Speakers:
Stephen Goldsmith
Author & Panelist
Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and the Director of the Innovations in American Government Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Neil Kleiman
Author & Panelist
Clinical Professor, NYU Wagner and NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress
Affiliated Scholar, Marron Institute
Linda Gibbs
Panelist
Principal of Social Services, Bloomberg Associates
Miguel Gamiño
Panelist
NYC Chief Technology Officer
Matt Chaban
Moderator
Policy Director/Fisher Fellow, Center for an Urban Future
Speakers
Neil Kleiman is a Fellow at the NYU Marron Institute. He has spent 25 years building a career at the intersection of policy, philanthropy, government and academia. He founded an urban issues think tank, established new university degree programs at Tulane and New York University, and developed innovative and practical policy solutions for dozens of cities across the United States. He has also written and edited over thirty policy reports, with his work featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio.
Kleiman is an urban policy professor at New York University where he has taught courses on policy formation, urban innovation, and new approaches to managing technology and big data. In 2017, he published A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative and Distributed Governance on Brookings Institution press. At NYU, Kleiman is the research director of the Mayors Leadership Institute on Smart Cities a partnership effort with the U.S. Conference of Mayors. In March, he published one of the first ever assessments public sector organizational culture in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Kennedy School at Harvard. At Tulane University, Kleiman developed a new Master of Public Administration program that launched in 2020.
Kleiman was previously Director of Policy at Living Cities, a collaborative of the world’s largest foundations and corporate philanthropies. He began his career as the founding director of the Center for an Urban Future, a New York-based policy think tank.
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