Sentences with phrase «solving public problems»

In an era of rapid change, uncertainty, and hyperpartisanship, when wicked problems abound, tools for solving public problems are more essential...

Pragmatism, as developed by Dewey and others, takes this general stance towards solving public problems and it still seems to me the right one.

In addition to her work at 100Kin10, she is also an Adjunct Professor at New York University Wagner, where she teaches Digital Innovation Lab, a masters - level course she designed to help future public servants enhance their ability to solve public problems with digital technology.

Not exact matches

Wisconsin is poised to strip collective bargaining rights from most of the state's 175,000 public employees in the boldest step by a new Republican governor and Legislature to solve budget problems by confronting organized labor.

It's very common to see public education, private education, city government, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits come together to solve a problem as a group.

Nor will continued gridlock over healthcare, or failure to solve the public pension problem or to reform entitlement spending.

Following successful models like the X-Prize, private - and public - sector leaders should work together to set up a high - profile Canada Prize that offers incentives for entrepreneurs and researchers to solve critical problems with commercial and public benefits, like cheap desalination units or better distribution of electricity to villages.

Its leadership should have made sure everyone knew that if they had a problem with the company, they should not go to the public but should rather take it to a manager to try to solve it internally.

As an example, I would love for a team to look at ride - sharing — like what Lyft and Uber have done — and see how you use that to help solve public transportation problems in San Francisco.

But as people with experience solving complex problems, leading complex organizations and coping with regulatory and legal issues, they have a valid and vital perspective to express on matters of politics and public policy.

The fellows serve 12 - month terms as entrepreneurs - in - residence, applying their problem - solving chops to public sector challenges.

A few I've recommended to my engineers include those that focus on problem solving, public speaking, professionalism, work ethics and leadership.»

Krafcik has said he sees Waymo's self - driving car technology being used in an array of applications from personal vehicles and ride - sharing to logistics and solving so - called last - mile problems for public transport.

Each semester I ask my students at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland to construct policy to solve this problem.

He aims to install 800 of his towers in public parks across China, not only to create pockets of cleaner air, but to bring more awareness to what is admittedly a huge problem that a giant air purifier — or even 800 of them — can't begin to solve.

Lack of access to even urgent dental care for many people with low income, seniors and others is a problem that could be solved with a «public option» for dental insurance, according to a new report...

Creating a bubble has been a way to solve their public debt problem — and to pay off political insiders at the same time, thereby killing two birds with one stone.

Despite promises by event organizers and local bid committees, and expectations by the public that the event will solve some of their daily urban problems, host cities often end up with unwanted or unused facilities and saddled with debts that will take decades to repay.

Can technology solve the problem of giving law enforcement access to all encrypted communications without additional risks to the public?

In the public blockchain system, all users follow an algorithm that verifies transactions by committing software and hardware resources to solving a problem by brute force (i.e., by solving the cryptographic puzzle).

In 2008, banks persuaded governments to «solve» the debt problem by taking bad bank debt onto the public balance sheet and then bailing out the banks.

Obama shouldn't be on track for a normal reelection, but might be unless Romney can fend off the ruthless capitalist pig ads and such by projecting hismelf as a public - spirited guy who has the savvy it takes to solve the tough problems we face.

Such developments, however, while they immeasurably deepened and expanded the meaning of personal prayer, did not solve the problem of public worship, which the early Christians only temporarily escaped when they left the temple and the synagogue.

And personal technologies break no private faith with the public belief in technique to solve our problems, a belief that curiously persists despite our underlying despair of the social chaos.

With the rapid development of metropolitanism few American communities will escape the concomitant problems of residential segregation, deteriorating public schools, physical and social planning, and a host of other problems that will have to be solved by the people who move most decisively and swiftly.

The key to solving the problems of violence on television is basically for broadcasters to exercise their responsiblity to serve the public welfare.

We need rational level headed people in public office if we want our problems solved, not deluded cowards clinging to death denying fairytales.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Appropriately, and I use that word because it's becoming more and more clear that the general public has a better idea of how to solve this problem than the media, many of the commenters on the article suggested that these families consider using cloth diapers.

An updated and expanded version of Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, published in 2006, has continued to keep Ferber and his approach to sleep in the public eye.

My DD's public school has free lunch for all, and while it doesn't solve all problems, it definitely has created a lot of enthuaism for improving lunch from all parents and some innovative ideas like adding a salad bar, etc..

Part of the Mother Projects initiative, where the agency tries to solve a problem or highlight an issue it feels passionate about, the effort from the creative team is about helping women who might feel embarrassed or judged while feeding their babies in public.

Surveillance is a public health approach to problem - solving, using data to identify challenges, assess the effectiveness of interventions, and inform public health action.

«While public policy and legal approaches are important, what's especially exciting to me is that individual schools, principals, teachers and community members are in many cases taking this problem into their own hands and saying, «What we can do to solve it?»»

Public Health England is launching new schemes to reduce people's calorie intake, but history suggests they won't solve the growing obesity problem

With budgets set to be painfully tight over the next decade, every pound of public spending should be tested on whether it actually solves a problem rather than creates one.

My dear friends, I have a dream that our Academy and our University will continue to grow and prosper, but in my dream, they are surrounded by thousandsof public and private schools and universitiesthat share our civic commitment, that emulate our thirst for knowledge, and that compete for the best and brightest students.Because those students they deserve to have a choice, and because there are too many problems for us to solve, and because we can't solve them and have a future unless our youth believe they can build one.

«There's no way that you have a system such as ours that has consistently thrive on corruption and proceeds of corruption and public financing in particular, that will give up and say guys, the problem has been solved.

Nation states were clearly unable to solve certain problems on their own and therefore an effective European policy could count on what Eurocrats used to call a «permissive public consensus.»

«We share the concerns of the public about poverty, jobs and the need to do better in education, but we're bringing Conservative principles to solve those problems.»

Seven of the 25 Moreland Commissioners dissented from the view that public campaign financing would solve problems.

«At the same time obesity is epidemic nationwide, and 40 percent of the city's public school children are either overweight or obese, so we are appropriately concerned in making sure that our work to solve one problem doesn't inadvertently exacerbate the other,» she said.

«The public is looking for a new candidate with energy, intelligence and dedication to solve problems and move forward,» she said.

«For five years as director of public prosecutions people put problems on my desk that I had to solve.

And yet no government has really solved the problem of how to finance the infrastructure we need within the public spending constraints we have.

Arguably, the problem is not that some people are rich, but rather that some people are poor and that there are possibly insufficient means to solve this long - term by — for example — providing quality public education, safe neighbourhoods, services etc. to all, next question is how to generate this revenue, which is where taxation comes in...

This event will be a «conversation on issues including voting rights, Black Lives Matter, youth and education, and how leaders can work across public and private sectors to solve society's problems.»

«Collaboration between public, private and nonprofit sectors is essential in addressing our societal needs and solving community problems,» the One Brooklyn form said.

«Dr. Sachs» three - plus decades of creativity and problem solving relating to health care issues in the public and private sector makes him a sought - after expert in the health field in New York and nationally,» Derris said.

«But that doesn't solve the problem any more than the curing of one patient solves a plague,» he added, asserting that any solution must also involve the public and politicians.