Podcast: regulate.tech

How do you approach advocacy internally? Should you join a tech giant just to change their ways? Can you change the way a large organization thinks, and if so – how? As a policy professional you have both an opportunity and a duty to voice your opini…

We asked for listener questions and you delivered! This episode is based on a question about how to build, think about and work with content policy teams. We discuss content moderation (and why that is a bad term), the distinctions between speech and…

Political advertising and issue advertising are hot issues – but why? What is the key challenges if we want to regulate political communication, and what are the second order effects of that regulation? A lot to think about and discuss!
 
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What is the tech-lash, why does it matter, and where is it heading in 2022? In this episode we take a step back and talk about the different tech-lashes, their absence in the data, roots and origins as well as strategies for dealing with great social…

In this episode we discuss all things planning and strategy for a policy team. Should a policy team plan? What frameworks exist? How do you deal with plans encountering reality? We discuss books by John Doerr – Measure What Matters – and Richard Rumm…

In this episode we sum up the first year with the podcast, our thoughts about 2021 and some predictions for 2022. We discuss what new episodes we should be digging into as well — and would love to hear from you if you have ideas! 
 
Participants: Ri…

In this episode we discuss the political economy of patents, their origin and the ways in which they touch tech policy. We also noodle on what a good tech policy agenda for patents could look like, and why trolls are a problem. 
 
Participants: Richa…

In this episode we discuss the classic text by Eric Raymond (see here http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ ) and how different modes of production of software are converging – and what that means for policy! 
 
Participants: Richard Al…

In this episode we discuss how to work with the legal function in a tech company, and what we can learn from our colleagues in litigation, employment law, commercial negotiations and not least the new and emerging profession of product counsel. Read …