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
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Regulate Tech #15: AI, political intent and legislative language
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
The new AI-regulation has gotten a lot of attention - but what does it tell us about the mechanics of legislation and the articulation of political intent - and how should we read the second and third order effects of this first-of-a-kind legislation?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Regulate Tech #14: Classics - Lessig and Code
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
In this episode we discuss Lawrence Lessig's seminal book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). What it meant to us then, what we think it still means and where it ended up being wrong about today.
Participants: Richard Allan , Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Regulate Tech #13: Taxes but not death
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
In this episode we discuss how the taxation debate unfolded, and what hard choices underpin it. We aim to clarify some of the discussions and look behind the scenes to understand motivations and challenges in creating a clear and predictable international tax system. It is hard!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Saturday Apr 03, 2021
Regulate Tech #12: Building a policy team
Saturday Apr 03, 2021
Saturday Apr 03, 2021
This one is about the craft! About how to build policy teams, where they report in and what to do and not do when setting out to think about a policy function!
Participants: Richard Allan and Nicklas Berild Lundblad
(Note a slight lag in a few places in this one between us, though, apologies for that).
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Regulate Tech #11: Jurisdiction
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
In this episode we start looking into the often both complex and complicated issues of jurisdiction over the Internet. We discuss the trends and evolution, and the re-territorialization of the Internet over time and give a few examples of hard choices we may have to make in the future.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Regulate Tech #10: Open and Closed
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
In this episode we examine the often somewhat fuzzy distinction between open and closed systems and platforms, and discuss if there are better ways to think about this. We also suggest that maybe we should pay more attention to the distinction between centralized and de-centralized solutions.
Participants: Richard Allan and Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Regulate Tech #9: Copyright: Where Are All the Pirates Now?
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
The first copyright episode! We discuss the old copyright wars and the coming ones, as well as the benefits of Creative Commons. What was all the fuss about? And why did copyright fade as the unquestioned number one policy issue in tech policy?
Participants: Richard Allan and Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Saturday Mar 06, 2021
Regulate Tech #8: Who Are These People, Anyway?
Saturday Mar 06, 2021
Saturday Mar 06, 2021
So, we are 8 episodes in and it felt about right to take a step back and say hi and introduce ourselves, explain how we ended up being interested in tech policy and why Richard was dissuaded from becoming Indiana Jones and ended up an Italian psychologist pirate. Listen in if also if you want to hear a bit about how tech companies started out thinking about policy and what the early days were like!
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.