Hi friends.

Just a brief note to say that I’ve been invited to come to the Kennedy School of Government to be a Research Fellow in the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program (STPP) at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  I’ve also been invited to be an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School and to teach on Technology, Policy and Government.

A number of other changes flow out of this news!

1. I’ll be moving to be Boston in the New Year. Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends from a previous life there, and making new friends. There’s a wonderful community of people there that includes the likes of Nigel Jacobs, Debbie Chachra, Nick Sinai, Susan Crawford, Nick Grossman, Colin Maclay, Mitchell Weiss and many others that I hope I get to see more of.
2. As I’ll be teaching, please send me any ideas, cases, readings you think I should include as course materials. I’m working on my initial course – an introduction to technology and government – which will focus on how technology can and is changing the ways we deliver services, organize government and make policy. Opportunities and challenges around user-centric design, collaboration vs. cooperation, influence and power, and open data/methodologies will all figure prominently. It is also about bringing what I tried to impart on fellows during the boot camps at Code for America and the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program.
3. Finally, with my children (only somewhat, but nonetheless…) a little older and these new academic responsibilities, I hope to write more again. Or maybe, more precisely, I hope to write more here again. This blog enables me to organize and structure thoughts (and, on occasion, is a place to get things off my chest). With luck it, along with the classroom, will be that again. While I’ve been silent and busy, the last few years have been an incredible time of learning – particularly in the civic startup space, but also vis-a-vis technology and government more generally – and I look forward to sharing more of what I’ve gleaned.

Leaving Vancouver is hard; I’ve got wonderful roots, family and friends here, and a community and city I care about enormously. But I’m also excited about engaging with colleagues and students at the Kennedy School.

Looking forward to it all.