Interesting news about smart cities, smart government and open government collected by the FreeBalance Strategy and Innovation Group.
THERE’S NOTHING SMARTER IN GOVERNMENT THAN HAPPINESS: Draft chapters of “Leading with Happiness” by Alexander Kjerulf, Chief Happiness Officer at Woohoo. Alex would like your feedback – why not make Alex happy?
http://positivesharing.com/2017/07/im-writing-my-next-book-called-leading-with-happiness-and-i-would-love-your-feedback/
AUTOMATION PUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF WORK EVEN IN EMERGING ECONOMIES: Are most jobs obsolete? Lorenzo Fioramonti in a World Economic Forum post suggests that “the only way out of this predicament is to empower people to become producers and consumers at the same time.”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/heres-how-we-can-create-jobs-in-the-age-of-robots-and-low-growth
SUCCESS IN 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION NEEDS ACCELERATED WORKFORCE RESKILLING: A WEF white paper suggests that “he skills required for most jobs are evolving rapidly but our adult education and training systems are lagging behind. While 35% of the skills demanded for jobs across industries will change by 2020, at least 1 in 4 workers in OECD countries is already reporting a skills mismatch with regards to the skills demanded by their current jobs.”
https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/accelerating-workforce-reskilling-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution
SMART INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION:Jose Luis Blanco, Andrew Mullin, Kaustubh Pandya, and Mukund Sridhar from McKinsey discuss the technology transformation of engineering and construction from digital design to predictive maintenance.
http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-infrastructure/our-insights/the-new-age-of-engineering-and-construction-technology
TRANSPARENCY CLOSES THE TRUST GAP: Donald F. Kettl describes link between trust through government transparency in Government Executive. Transparency does not always lead to trust and can often contradict other policies.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2017/07/can-government-earn-citizens-trust/139743/
PUERTO RICO ENGAGES CITIZENS: Ann Ravel, in Pacific Standard, describes the efforts used to increase voter turnout and citizen participation in Puerto Rico.
https://psmag.com/news/puerto-rico-as-a-blueprint-for-voter-engagement
