When it comes to digital infrastructure, communities lack more than just broadband access. Rather, the delivery of effective digital services at the local level has been hamstrung by three primary obstacles: an absence of data, poor community-government relationships, and insufficient digital literacy among key populations. At their core, these failures all have one thing in common: they designed for the community but not with the community. 

Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist at Amazon, and Daniel Kahneman, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, was in conversation with Vivian Schiller, Executive Director of Aspen Digital.

In the policy world, people talk a lot about data-driven decisions, and data-driven policymaking.  We hear less about data-driven relationships.  But the experience of two mayors, G.T. Bynum of Tulsa and Catherine Pugh of Baltimore, suggest that data can connect and unite people from across the country and across the political spectrum and across city departments.