{"id":35884,"date":"2017-04-04T15:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/rand-opens-office-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:24","slug":"rand-opens-office-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/rand-opens-office-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area","title":{"rendered":"RAND Opens Office in the San Francisco Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rand-opens-office-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RAND has opened an office in the San Francisco Bay Area to foster collaboration with the region\u2019s leaders and researchers working to solve today\u2019s complex problems\u2014issues including technological change and innovation, social inequality, water resource management, and transportation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRAND\u2019s research and analysis in technology, science, and economic policy intersect directly with the innovation emerging from the San Francisco Bay Area,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/r.rand.org\/about\/people\/r\/rich_michael_d.html\">Michael D. Rich<\/a>, president and CEO of RAND. \u201cRAND\u2019s new office should help strengthen awareness within the Bay Area community of our long-standing commitment to using evidence and data to help policy and decisionmakers enhance well-being in the region and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RAND brings a unique set of tools to address these policy concerns: big-data analytics, gaming, and methods to help people make difficult decisions in the face of uncertainty. <a href=\"http:\/\/r.rand.org\/about\/people\/k\/kalra_nidhi.html\">Nidhi Kalra<\/a>, a senior information scientist, is leading the new office and will be convening public- and private-sector stakeholders to discuss important issues. \u201cWe want to partner with the region\u2019s technology and innovation communities, to link our research and their expertise to make better policies and improve people\u2019s lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/rand-opens-office-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area.html?adbsc=social_20170404_1420351&adbid=10155522103958676&adbpl=fb&adbpr=55708608675\">https:\/\/www.rand.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/rand-opens-office-in-the-s...5708608675<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAND has opened an office in the San Francisco Bay Area to foster collaboration with the region\u2019s leaders and researchers working to solve today\u2019s complex problems\u2014issues including technological change and innovation, social inequality, water resource management, and transportation. \u201cRAND\u2019s research and analysis in technology, science, and economic policy intersect directly with the innovation emerging from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,31,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-policy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58181,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35884\/revisions\/58181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}