Friday Oct 15, 2021
Regulate Tech #34: Chocolate or cigarettes
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
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
In this episode we discuss when decision making should be shifted from companies to third parties, government and regulators. Who decides what? And when? With examples from tech policy we try to figure out where the debate is heading today.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
In this episode we discuss how comms, press and policy interact, what to watch out for, common mistakes and the changing landscape of tech in media. Listen in!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Saturday Sep 11, 2021
Saturday Sep 11, 2021
In this episode we are discussing the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and the recently proposed UN convention as well -- what can we learn from the 20 years since the original Budapest convention launched and why should we be engaged in the work the UN now seems to be undertaking with very little public attention paid to it? How should we approach issues related to new crimes, new evidence and cross-border cooperation between law enforcement agencies?
https://www.coe.int/en/web/cybercrime/the-budapest-convention
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/13/cybercrime-dangerous-new-un-treaty-could-be-worse-rights
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
In this episode we discuss hearings, what goes on behind the curtains and how you can survive - but never win - a hearing. Tune in to learn about different parliaments and the tricks of the trade!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Friday Aug 27, 2021
This episode is dedicated to digging deeper on transparency from first principles. How should we understand the increasing demands on transparency and the different legislative proposals? What does transparency really mean and what are the design dimensions of transparency?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
One of the most heated and interesting debates about tech policy for the early Internet was embodied in the idea of network neutrality. In this episode we discuss the past, present and future of network neutrality, incumbents vs challengers, zero-rating and how we should think about network neutrality now.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
In this season opener we discuss governments surveillance, NSO, scanning phones for illegal materials, Enchrochat, Anom and much more! What limits should we look for when we think about government surveillance and how can such limits be implemented and enforced?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
In this, the season's last episode, we recommend some summer reading. The full list below! We will be back third week of August!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
The list:
Alan Rusbridger Breaking the News
Gary Klein Sources of Power
Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind
Julia Galef The Scout Mindset
Dunbar et al, Thinking Big
China Mieville The City and The City
John Connolly The Dirty South
David Spiegelhalter, Art of Statistics
Jill Lepore If Then
Stephen Coleman How Voters Feel
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.