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
May 7, 2021
May 7, 2021
1hr 2 min
In this episode we dig deep into one of the real classics of tech policy making - the 1980 privacy principles and their impact. We also discuss how emphasis has changed over the years.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Apr 30, 2021
Apr 30, 2021
50 min
This is another craft session, where we discuss the actual organization and build up of policy teams, and how to think about them in different models - capabilities, super powers, geographically and mapping to political and business structures. A lot to unpack and discuss!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Apr 25, 2021
Apr 25, 2021
51 min
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
Apr 16, 2021
Apr 16, 2021
1hr 3 min
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
Apr 11, 2021
Apr 11, 2021
1hr 1 min
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
Apr 3, 2021
Apr 3, 2021
59 min
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).
Mar 27, 2021
Mar 27, 2021
1hr 6 min
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
Mar 20, 2021
Mar 20, 2021
55 min
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
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.