Public Policy

Changing People’s Behavior by Changing the Environment

November 27, 2010

Changing people’s behavior isn’t hard, it just takes some imagination and innovative ways. We go through our daily lives following a set of unwritten rules, socially acceptable behaviors. When things change, we’re not sure how to react. Watch this video to see how people’s behavior changed when a new variable is added. On a more [...]

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Interactive: Fix the Federal Budget Deficit

November 17, 2010

The New York Time developed an amazing webapp that allows you to make policy decisions to attempt to close the Federal budget deficit. It’s too easy to say that congress isn’t doing their job, or the President is wrong, etc. Instead, this is your chance to sit in the chair and make the decisions. What [...]

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The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

November 13, 2010
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Why the same cellular data can cost differently

September 22, 2010

Megabytes, kilobytes, and gigabytes are commonly used terms of data today. Digital data is stored in 1′s and 0′s. Therefore, a 1 is a 1 and a 0 is a 0 and each takes up equally the same space and resource to process, store, and transmit. That is, unless you’re AT&T. In the table below, [...]

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Performing an organizational-wide performance assessment

May 17, 2010

Traditionally, companies and governments perform what is known as a risk assessment, to identify the likelihood and impacts of potential vulnerabilities, threats, and dangers. While this is a worthwhile management exercises to keep the risks on management radar, it often focuses on negative events such as internal control weaknesses, security, and disasters. photo credit: yomy17 [...]

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The Stimulus is Not the Answer

February 2, 2009
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Dear President Obama, Congratulations on your historical inauguration. You have open doors, inspired, and motivated our generation and generations to come. History is in the making each and everyday you wake up and carry the burdens that our nation faces. You inherited one of the most ailing economy that our nation has faced since the Great Depression. [...]

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Government Transparency Is Making Data Understandable

January 30, 2009
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What is government transparency? President Obama promised to post all non-emergency bills brought to his desk on his website for a five day public review period. In a memo to his staff, Obama wrote, “Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their government is doing.” While on the surface, these initiatives and [...]

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