All talks at the Media Lab, unless otherwise noted, are open to the public.
This talk will be webcast.
Join us on Twitter: #MLTalks

Beth Simone Noveck served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and founder and director of the White House Open Government Initiative (2009-2011). UK Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her Senior Advisor for Open Government. She 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. A visiting professor at the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, she is currently a professor of law at New York Law School. Noveck has a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to create a research network on effective governance for the networked age. With support from the Sloan Foundation, she is currently designing and building OrgPedia, the Wikipedia of firms. Noveck organized the recent Club de Madrid annual meeting, the convening of former Presidents and Prime Ministers, on technology and governance in the 21st century. A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, she was named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company magazine, ” Top 25 Game Changers” by Politico and one of the “Top Women in Technology” by Huffington Post. Her book Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings Institution Press 2009), appeared in Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and in an audio edition. She is also co-editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (NYU Press 2006). Her new book, The Networked State will appear with Harvard University Press.