Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Regulate Tech 2024:8 Power
Regulate Tech
Between them, Richard Allan and Nicklas Berild Lundblad have over 50 years of experience in internet technology policy. And they still love talking about it. In this podcast, they dig into major technology policy questions before policy makers, teasing out the trade-offs they have to consider. They reflect on their own experiences from both sides of the business and politics divide. Some episodes are aimed at technology policy professionals as Richard and Nicklas share what they have learnt along the way. They believe there is public value in services having effective policy teams and want to help these develop, grow and, well, make new mistakes...
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Episodes
Episodes
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
In this episode we discuss the challenges of regulating for what is and what will be - and how to think about artificial intelligence: is it efficiency or innovation? And what should policy makers do?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
In this episode we discuss how to approach public policy issues at different points in the Gartner hype cycle -- should you lean in to the peak of inflated expectations? Solidly make a home in the trough of disillusionment? Listen in!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Thursday Oct 03, 2024
In this episode we discuss the importance of cyber and information security, why it is hard to draft regulation to make a city safe, the NIS2 and the trade offs involved in security policy overall.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
How should we think about internet services in a global first world? The answer to that question is shifting fast from launch once, access everywhere to the more complex launch, comply and restrict - and ultimately maybe this has to be solved in a trade framework -- so how will that work? Will we get international standards for platforms? AI?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
In this episode we discuss the special challenges that policy professionals meet as new governments are coming in, how to work with them - and how to best prepare, and when to simply stand back. What do we do a year before an election? 3 months before? During the first 100 days?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
It is the OG of tech policy issues -- encryption. And not it is back! How should we manage the requests to create backdoors, disable e2e encryption and where are we headed in this contentious debate?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Thursday Sep 05, 2024
What do you do when the clash between your organization's views and those of a government just is not avoidable anymore? How do you handle redlines? In this episode we discuss the tricky art of confrontation.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Friday Dec 29, 2023
Friday Dec 29, 2023
In this episode we discuss the year that was and the year that is coming - and make some predictions! Happy New Year!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
A podcast about tech, policy and the future
Are you interested in learning more about the craft of tech policy? Dig deep in the classics? Figure out what the future for tech holds? Then this is the podcast for you. Conversations between two long-time policy professionsals with 50+ years of shared experience from tech policy in companies, trade associations and academia.