13: Automating The State
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Dima and Slava talk to Vasyl, once CEO of ProZorro, about automation of the government and government services, dynamics of state-owned enterprises and getting back to "regular" business.
- ProZorro – public procurement service used by Ukrainian government
- State in a smartphone
- Starting from zero allow for leaps in adoption of new technology
- Does "technology" equal "no corruption"?
- If underlying process is bad, automation will just amplify it, not fix
- 10 Functions of the State
- Government is obliged to serve all citizens and cannot choose to have smaller marketshare
- Social Credit System in China
- Arrow's impossibility theorem
- Techno-optimists, techno-pessimists, and techno-realists
"What is the problem we are trying to solve?"
- "Nobody Gets Fired For Buying IBM"
- Risk acceptance and dependence on public opinion
