Automation to augmentation: from lawyers acting as modems and machines as judges with Pia Andrews

<p>In episode no. 68 my guest is serial public sector transformer, Pia Andrews. We discuss:</p> <ul> <li>how her pursuit of “truth” led her to the open-source movement and working in policy development;</li> <li>how technological tools relate to our quality of life;</li> <li>‘open source’ – its philosophy and implementation and the idea of “clever hacks”;</li> <li>how ‘rules as code’ addresses issues with enforcing regulation;</li> <li>prescriptive and principles-based rules and when each are appropriate;</li> <li>the connection between the cost of implementing regulation and its effectiveness;</li> <li>how an API for prescriptive rules relating to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism funding could have saved one bank $16M per year!;</li> <li>how ‘rules as code’ make compliance more transparent by allowing for modelling, and how this could increase accountability of the public sector;</li> <li>how current policy creation is insufficient and requires input from community and an example from France which incorporated co-design of policy;</li> <li>Taiwan’s response to the introduction of Uber!</li> <li>the importance of multidisciplinary teams in developing policy and how ‘rules as code’ facilities doing so in real time;</li> <li>how ‘rules as code’ improves trust and compliance with administrative law and shifts the onus to government;</li> <li>different public sector approaches to the “new normal”;</li> <li>how the relationship between the public sector and its government drives outcomes;</li> <li>whether a public sector should serve – the government, parliament or the people?</li> <li>3 things necessary to create an environment for innovation and solving wicked problems;</li> <li>the connection between capacity and innovation, and Pia’s ideas about how to increase civic participation through a “civic gap year” and “policy difference engine”; and of course</li> <li>Pia’s definition of legal innovation.</li> </ul> <p>Proudly sponsored by Neota Logic</p> <p>Links:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://linux.org.au/">