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Government Policy Articulated podcast has completed a United States document on twenty years of Afghanistan Reconstruction. The document provides a brutal policy-informed assessment of the incompetence of U.S. departments as they try to turn Afghanistan into a democracy. Worth a listen

Government Policy Articulated podcast has started a new exciting podcast thread, the 'National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2021-2031' which is an outcomes policy intervention. Please listen

Government Policy Articulated podcast has started a new podcast thread called 'The New Frontier - Delivering better health for all Australians'. This important report is on the approvals and reimbursement processes for medicines and medical devices to enter Australia and be accesses by Australians. One day, all of us will be in these processes and they may or may not help us stay alive

Parts 4 & 5 Working from home podcast at 'Government Policy Articulated' are specialist chapters on the affect of working from home on cities and wellbeing. On cities, the affect may not be great as the agglomeration attraction of cities is unaffected. The affect on wellbeing is harder to detect

Part 3 Working from home podcast titled 'The role of regulation in the transition to a working-from-home world' shows Work, Health & Safety regulation does not limit working from home in Australia. Also, the centralized wage system may play no role as employees and employers negotiate their unique solutions

Parts 1 & 2 Working from home podcast at 'Government Policy Articulated' now available. A research report by the Australian Government Productivity Commission it shows the 'forced experiment' of COVID-19 when workers were forced to work at home and how it may evolve in future

Parts 5 & 6 concludes Bias in algorithmic decision-making podcast by showing the work government has to do to avoid bias in public & private sectors/ On the build side, Integrated Impact Assessments may need to be mandated to ensure algorithms deliver positive outcomes. On the results side, inter alia, there must be public buy-in to support coordination and guidance by government of the use of algorithms. These are the enduring challenges for policy of outcomes focus and citizen engagement

Part 4 Bias in algorithmic decision-making podcast at 'Government Policy Articulated' on policing in the UK finds there is acute danger of algorithms being racially-based entering and amplifying human biases widely documented against BAME (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic) communities. The Report calls for government oversight of all stages of police use of algorithms.
On the build-side, Integrated Impact Assessments must be developed for all police algorithms. There must be national coordination and government guidance on police use of algorithms. Public buy-in is needed for all this # policy

Part 2 Bias in algorithmic decision-making podcast at 'Government Policy Articulated' on Recruitment shows that 'predictive' algorithms, those that source data from a high performer doing a recruitment test, can pull out characteristics -race, gender, age- not associated with job performance

Part 2 'Bias in algorithmic decision-making' podcast at 'Government Policy Articulated' analyses the first of four sectors - recruitment, financial services, policing, local government - to show how bias happens and how it can be avoided. Independent auditing of algorithms is recommended throughout but this will have to be configured to each jurisdictions institutional context. The United Kingdom context is featured here

'Government Policy Articulated' podcast has begun a new thread 'Bias in algorithmic decision-making'. By CDEI in the UK, the report helps us to avoid reacting negatively to algorithms and to understand that algorithms can be adjusted for bias and unfairness by humans

Part 4 Coercive control podcast at 'Government Policy Articulated' shows how a new criminal offence of coercive control can be supported in the broader policy context, beyond the law. There are many important policy initiatives here to protect ATSI, LGBTQ, CALD, disability, older and regional and remote victims