The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance

Acknowledgments

We express our appreciation to the many people who assisted us with this book. The work leading to it was supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, which has funded our Data-Smart City Solutions project. In particular, our thanks go to Patricia Harris and James Anderson and, of course, to Michael Bloomberg himself, whose business and government leadership have provided proof of many of the theories advocated in this book. These individuals supported work on digital governance reforms before these issues gained the widespread attention they now receive. Our work on digital responsiveness has also been supported by Alaina Harkness of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a key leader in the international movement; Carol ...