Rapid Response: Build government back – better, w/Jen Pahlka (Code for America, USDR)

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In the US, local governments are leading the response to COVID-19 – making decisions and gathering data at a speed and scale never before seen. And many of them are asking Jen Pahlka for help. The founder and past chair of Code for America, she co-founded U.S. Digital Response, a nonpartisan group that matches experts with local governments to work on tech, comms and operations. She shares what she's seeing right now – and paints a bold, big-picture vision of what a modern government could do in the years to come. Interviewed by editor Bob Safian.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, you may have heard read talking about the future of AI and chat GPT on
0:04.8	Master's of Scale recently.
0:06.6	If you're interested in learning more, I want to recommend Wired's new podcast Have
0:10.6	a Nice Future.
0:12.0	Each episode explores the future of AI through illuminated conversations, featuring top technologists,
0:17.7	thinkers, and creators who share stories of how politics, culture, commerce, and more
0:22.3	are all touched by technology.
0:24.8	New episodes of Have a Nice Future are released every Wednesday.
0:28.2	You can listen and follow now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.4	What's going on in our country is unprecedented and government is suddenly asked to operate
0:36.7	so much greater speed and greater scale.
0:39.8	It's a little mind-boggling.
0:42.0	There's a world in which government becomes more agile, more responsive, more scalable.
0:46.8	We're talking about scale here, right?
0:49.5	Government is the original scale.
0:50.9	It's a third of the economy, but it's being asked to scale in ways that it hasn't in
0:55.3	the past.
0:56.8	We got in this situation because we neglected to modernize our government infrastructure.
1:03.0	We can't make those mistakes in the future.
1:06.0	Public servants are rising to this occasion.
1:08.3	They're always helping, and now they're having to help even more.
1:11.5	They're looking at this situation and saying it's our job to help the American public now.
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