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...
Episodes
Episodes
Jan 23, 2022
Jan 23, 2022
57 min
What is the tech-lash, why does it matter, and where is it heading in 2022? In this episode we take a step back and talk about the different tech-lashes, their absence in the data, roots and origins as well as strategies for dealing with great social debates like this that have worked historically. Tune in!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Jan 13, 2022
Jan 13, 2022
1hr 10 min
In this episode we discuss all things planning and strategy for a policy team. Should a policy team plan? What frameworks exist? How do you deal with plans encountering reality? We discuss books by John Doerr - Measure What Matters - and Richard Rummelt - Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - and much, much more. Meet the new year with plans! And then change them...
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Dec 20, 2021
Dec 20, 2021
1hr 42 sec
In this episode we sum up the first year with the podcast, our thoughts about 2021 and some predictions for 2022. We discuss what new episodes we should be digging into as well -- and would love to hear from you if you have ideas!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Dec 15, 2021
Dec 15, 2021
54 min
In this episode we discuss the political economy of patents, their origin and the ways in which they touch tech policy. We also noodle on what a good tech policy agenda for patents could look like, and why trolls are a problem.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Dec 6, 2021
Dec 6, 2021
59 min
In this episode we discuss the classic text by Eric Raymond (see here http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ ) and how different modes of production of software are converging - and what that means for policy!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Nov 26, 2021
Nov 26, 2021
1hr 4 min
In this episode we discuss how to work with the legal function in a tech company, and what we can learn from our colleagues in litigation, employment law, commercial negotiations and not least the new and emerging profession of product counsel. Read more about how product counsel came to become the hottest legal profession here:
http://www.bricoleur.org/2020/04/product-counsel-origin-story.html
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Nov 13, 2021
Nov 13, 2021
1hr 2 min
In this episode we discuss what it means for technology to fail, why Facebook is ceasing to do facial recognition, what happened to Google Glass, how we should think about Altavista and MySpace and a host of other things like DRM, PETs and ECMSs. Tune in!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Nov 6, 2021
Nov 6, 2021
43 min
In the first episode we discussed the value and challenges of advertising as a business model - and in this episode we dig deeper into the harms and how they can be mitigated. All technologies are trade offs, and here we discuss individual, social and long term harms from creating targeted profiles - and how they can be addressed.
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.