November 5, 2020  4:15 PM – 4:25 PM GMT+0
Keynote

The inevitability of digital platforms

Every government will be a digital platform. You get to choose whether this happens with intention (Estonia) or whether the private sector builds it for you (Facebook OAUTH.)
 Also: Privatization (Intuit nearly doing taxes by default in the US) and the line between public and private infrastructure.

1. Why it isn’t optional: Won’t be able to govern; accessibility; service delivery
2. Governments get to choose

Lawyer, Chief Scientific Officer
Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Columbia University