If You Were Conscripted into Public-Sector Entrepreneurship Where Would You Focus

If you were conscripted for 12–18 months into public-sector entrepreneurship to help to create, improve, or eliminate our public sector institutions and policies, where would you choose to focus?

Imagine a world where public sector solutions are not always a product of long debates through congress and the oval office but can also emerge out of citizen initiatives, piloted in small areas and then abandoned, revised or scaled up depending on outcomes. As a draftee, you would work with other Americans to create these pop-up institutions that could be relegated to history or emerge as a new pillar of democracy.

• ☐ Primary focus
• ☆ Secondary interest
• ______ Fill-in-the-blank

Possible Public-Sector Entrepreneurship Domains

1. Education & Lifelong Learning
(schools, credentials, re-training, access, outcomes)

2. Workforce & Economic Mobility
(job transitions, entrepreneurship, precarity, local opportunity)

3. Health & Mental Health
(access, prevention, public health, addiction, aging)

4. Housing & Community Development
(affordability, zoning, homelessness, mixed-income communities)

5. Public Safety & Justice
(crime prevention, policing, courts, incarceration alternatives)

6. Climate, Energy & Resilience
(adaptation, infrastructure, water, wildfire, heat)

7. Transportation & Urban Systems
(mobility, congestion, public transit, walkability)

8. Technology, Data & Digital Government
(service delivery, trust, privacy, civic tech)

9. Democracy, Trust & Civic Participation
(elections, institutions, public engagement, misinformation)

10. Immigration & Integration
(newcomer support, labor matching, civic belonging)

11. Research, Science & Long-Term Capability
(R&D, national capacity, moonshots, readiness)

12. International Cooperation & Security
(diplomacy, alliances, global public goods)

13. Arts, Culture & Public Space
(public art, cultural districts, libraries/museums, creative economy, place-making)

14. Public Media, Broadcasting & Civic Information
(PBS/local news partnerships, civic explainers, media literacy, emergency communications, community dialogue)

15. Fill in the Blank

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You are not fixing everything. You are choosing one place to make something meaningfully better. Democracy should not be something that happens to you. It should be something you help to make happen.