A Talk by Internet Theorist Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky, Associate Professor in the Interactive Telecommunications Program and Journalism Department at NYU, Fellow at the Berkman Center, and Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer at Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy (2010) joined Ginny Hunt, Harvard’s Institute of Politics Fellow (Fall 2013) and Strategy Principal at Google, for a conversation on technology and the government. The talk addressed the recent debacle concerning the launch of Healthcare.gov and its implications for the management of technology in politics. Trey Grayson, director of the Institute of Politics, introduced the program.