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As more areas of our economy become computerized and move online, more and more of what regulators need to understand will be in the source code. For example, take the VW emissions scandal : These days, cars are an order [...]  Read more

Last week, I was in Amsterdam at the Next Web conference, giving a talk about “Purpose, Mission and Strategy” — how companies can strengthen the connection between these to align efforts and make tough calls more easily (will post video when [...]  Read more

By creating an economic incentive — the cryptocurrency or token — to create a shared open data asset, we now have powerful driver for open data, interoperable through open standards. Read more

To better support small businesses operating in regulated sectors, we should develop “alternative compliance” mechanisms — parallel regulatory regimes that achieve the goals of existing regulations but take an alternative, data-oriented approach to achieving them. Such an approach would be [...]  Read more

We are entering the information age, and as such our fundamental models for accomplishing our goals are changing. In the case of regulation, that means a shift from the industrial, permission-based model to the internet-native, accountability based model Read more

Nick's O'Reilly eBook on emerging services for gig workers Read more