| Beth Noveck | |
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Beth Noveck in 2009 |
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| Born | 1971 |
| Nationality | United States of America |
Beth Simone Noveck was the United States deputy chief technology officer for open government and led President Obama's Open Government Initiative. Based at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy until January 2011, she is an expert on technology and institutional innovation.[1] On May 16 George Osborne announced that Noveck had been recruited to a position in the United Kingdom government.[2]
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Previously, Noveck directed the Institute for Information Law & Policy and the Democracy Design Workshop at New York Law School where she is on-leave as a professor. She is founder of the "Do Tank," and the State of Play Conferences, and launched the first of its kind Peer-to-Patent community patent review project in collaboration with the United States Patent and Trade Office. She has taught in the areas of intellectual property, innovation, and constitutional law, as well as courses on electronic democracy and electronic government.[3] She is the author of the book Wiki Government, a book that argues in favor of utilizing Internet technologies to make the U.S. federal government more transparent in its activities more open to citizen input.[4]