#85 - Teaching Mayors to Tap Data’s “Sneaky Super Power”: Bringing People Together
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--- The Data Track at Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative helps leaders to the see the people behind city-level data.--- Today, we’re throwing a spotlight on the Data track of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, a collaboration between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, and GovEx. Launched in 2017, the Initiative has worked with 539 mayors and 2500+ senior city officials in 560 cities worldwide, and has also advanced research and developed new curriculum and teaching tools to help city leaders solve real-world problems. Latricia Boone, GovEx’s Senior Director of Partnerships, talks to Sari Ladin-Sienne, the Initiative’s program director and former Chief Data Officer of the City of Los Angeles, about the program’s history and goals, what the experience is like for mayors, and how the Data track teaches mayors how to leverage data to address challenges and realize their vision.--- Learn more about the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative (https://www.cityleadership.harvard.edu/)--- Learn more about us at govex.jhu.edu (http://govex.jhu.edu/)--- Fill out our listener survey! (https://govex.jhu.edu/data-points/)
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Published 11/06/24
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