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
Jul 9, 2021
Jul 9, 2021
51 min
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
Jul 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
54 min
In this episode we dig into the craft a bit more and discuss collaboration and competition in the policy space, companies briefing against each-other and why standards is the next space to really watch out for.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Jun 25, 2021
Jun 25, 2021
1hr 17 min
Midsummer's Eve episode! In this episode we return to the classics, and one of the texts that has been both praised and ridiculed - John Perry Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace from 1996. What has happened since it was written and how has the tech policy space changed -- where was Barlow right and what did he get wrong. Far from dismissing Barlow we try to engage with the text and look at what we can learn from reading classics.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Jun 18, 2021
Jun 18, 2021
55 min
In this episode we discuss big tech, competition policy and the question of the future of antitrust. We also note that companies get big by competing, but stay big through regulation and that the Internet is going from a farmers' market to a pharma market!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Jun 11, 2021
Jun 11, 2021
57 min
In this episode we discuss the emerging law on the right to disconnect, work/life balance and the question of what is actually happening to jobs and work as the pandemic lifts. How do we think about the workplace of the future, privacy and leisure time?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Jun 4, 2021
Jun 4, 2021
1hr 14 sec
In this episode we discuss all things geographical - maps, location, local organization and communities, satellite imagery and borders, public sector geo imagery and issue of geographical naming. We also explore why the topical Internet will realize the democratic promise in the technological revolution!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
May 28, 2021
May 28, 2021
1hr 4 min
In this episode we discuss the new proposal from the European Commission to strengthen the code of practice for misinformation. We discuss the underlying premise, the tools and what the negative framing of the issue means for the future of democracy online. Tune in!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
May 21, 2021
May 21, 2021
49 min
In this episode we discuss the new UK Online Safety Bill and where they get their cheap lawyers and programmers, as well as how to really think about a duty of care.
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.