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David Lazer
The Program on Networked Governance
Author: Prof. David Lazer, Director, [email protected]
04/19/23 p. 2
Program on Networked Governance
Programming: colloquia, joint symposia with National Center for Digital Government at UMass Amherst (Jane Fountain), videoconferenced trans- Atlantic events with ETH Zurich and University of Amsterdam
Fellows: Thomas Langenberg, Alexander Schellong, Birgit Rabl, Allan Friedman
Research: DNApolicy.net, Team-network project, Connecting to Congress, Public Health officials
www.ksg.harvard.edu/netgov Supported by NSF grant 0131923.
Author: Prof. David Lazer, Director, [email protected]
04/19/23 p. 3
The Problem of Parallel Problem Solving
Many agents working on similar problems. How to harness the problem solving capacity of many agents. Common issue in computer science (optimization algorithms), not much in
social sciences. Trade-off: avoiding re-invention of wheel, while encouraging
experimentation.
Author: Prof. David Lazer, Director, [email protected]
04/19/23 p. 4
Connecting to Congress
Collaborators: Kevin Esterling (UCR), Michael Neblo (OSU), Ines Mergel
Looking at the use of the Internet by Members of Congress
Why is potential underutilized? What personal networks are critical to
supporting use of computer networks? Supported by NSF grant # 0429452.
Author: Prof. David Lazer, Director, [email protected]
04/19/23 p. 5
DNApolicy.net
Collaborators: Ines Mergel, Maria Binz-Scharf
Use of Internet to facilitate knowledge sharing in geographically dispersed community
What are the obstacles (psychological, institutional) to asking and answering questions?
Supported by NSF grant 0131923 and the Ash Institute.
Author: Prof. David Lazer, Director, [email protected]
04/19/23 p. 6
Teams and Networks
Collaborator: Nancy Katz (Harvard) What communication patterns within
and outside of team help it perform well?
What role do the different media play in communications? Why do people choose the media that they do?
Supported by grants from the Center for Public Leadership and the Women and Public Policy Program.
Author: Prof. David Lazer, Director, [email protected]
04/19/23 p. 7
State Health Officials
Collaborators: Ines Mergel, Nancy Katz Knowledge Sharing in dispersed community of practitioners (one SHO per
state) How does knowledge of experienced SHO’s get transferred to new SHO’s Supported by RWJF.
Author: Prof. David Lazer, Director, [email protected]
04/19/23 p. 8
The dark side of making the world smaller
Collaborator: Allan Friedman How does altering communication structure affect parallel problem solving? Method: simulations Preliminary answer: more communication can improve short run performance but at
the expense of long run performance. See paper at www.ksg.harvard.edu/netgov. Supported by NSF grant 0131923.