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Implementing Digital Infrastructure: Author Interview with Stephen Goldsmith and Betsy Gardner

BY BETSY GARDNER • December 7, 2022

In this episode Professor Goldsmith talks with co-author Betsy Gardner about their newest paper, Implementing Digital Infrastructure Responses to Equity, Sustainability, and Safety. Supported by the Knight Foundation, this work outlines how cities can investment in digital infrastructure to increase equity, reduce life-cycle costing, and implement the Responsive City Cycle. They also discuss how governance must adapt and innovate in order to take advantage of all this potential.

Listen below, or wherever you get your podcasts, to learn more. Transcript available here.

About the Author

Betsy Gardner

Betsy Gardner is the editor of Data-Smart City Solutions and the producer of the Data-Smart City Pod. Prior to joining the Ash Center, Betsy worked in a variety of roles in higher education, focusing on deconstructing racial and gender inequality through research, writing, and facilitation. She also researched government spending and transparency at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Betsy holds a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Policy from Northeastern University, a bachelor’s degree in Art History from Boston University, and a graduate certificate in Digital Storytelling from the Harvard Extension School.

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