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Watch this episode on YouTube 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 |