Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Beth Noveck, fully Beth Simone Noveck

American Professor of Law at New York Law School, Attorney, United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Director of the White House Open Initiative, Founded the Democracy Design Workshop: Do Tank, a program for the design of law, policy, and technology to foster openness and collaboration

"We live not in a passive society, a read-only society, but in a writable society."

"The majority of the comments now appearing on the OSTP blog are serious efforts by citizens, and in some cases domain experts, to engage with the questions on tap."