My name is Ian Beacock – & I put ideas to work for the public good. Criss-crossing disciplines, I focus on the past, present, & future of democracy.
Leading foundational strategic research at Jigsaw, Google’s public interest technology incubator.
Now
Director of Strategy at Gemic, focusing on tech & society. Historian of democracy, trained at Stanford.
Before
New paper on AI & human agency. Learning from family caregivers to inspire Jigsaw’s AI portfolio. Coauthoring a public roadmap on tech for civic dialogues with 13 global experts. Fieldwork in Tokyo, upstate New York, Singapore.
Lately
nyc+vancouver, mainly