Biweekly 13: Automating The State

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iXqDNZWJD2c) 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 (https://prozorro.gov.ua/en) – 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 (https://effectivestates.org/ten-functions-of-the-state/) * Government is obliged to serve all citizens and cannot choose to have smaller marketshare * Social Credit System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System) in China * Arrow's impossibility theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem) * Techno-optimists, techno-pessimists, and techno-realists "What is the problem we are trying to solve?" * "Nobody Gets Fired For Buying IBM" (https://www.forbes.com/sites/duenablomstrom1/2018/11/30/nobody-gets-fired-for-buying-ibm-but-they-should/) * Risk acceptance and dependence on public opinion