
Regulation & Technological Innovation: Opportunities, Challenges and Emerging Approaches
What is an instructor-led online course?
The online instructor-led courses are offered in a personalized mode with a limited number of participants per class. Start and finish dates are clearly marked. Besides the online tools used for interaction in the virtual environment, courses provide students with continuous support from a technical assistant, the tutor and a program coordinator, who are experts in the course topics, and are able to offer effective feedback in all course activities and promote relevant discussion.
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ONLINE TUTOR
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ABOUT THIS COURSE
Why this course
New technologies are evolving so fast that regulators struggle to keep pace: the insufficiency of current regulatory instruments is as evident as the need for effective rules in a world in constant flux. Future decision-makers need to master a new toolkit to foster more agile, adaptive regulation in times of constant disruption and increasingly frequent emergencies.
By taking this course, you can learn how regulators are coping with the interplay between regulation and innovation, and how new regulatory tools are being designed and implemented around the world. You will also learn what it takes to become a policy leader in your field, and understand the use of instruments such as regulatory sandboxes, the use of big data in regulation, rules for digital platforms and emerging approaches to market liberalization. You will also discuss several case studies from different regulated sectors, which will help you at once explore existing experiences around the world, and debate important legal, policy and ethical concerns with a group of peers. The course is an interactive learning journey, mixing personalized training according to your domain of professional expertise with inter-disciplinary, collaborative learning with your peers and colleagues, and live, interactive sessions with the course instructor.
This course is a result of the collaboration between Inter-American Development Bank and European University Institute (EUI) teams.
Course goals
On successful completion of this seminar, you will be able to:
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Express key technological developments and the related issues that affect policymakers and regulators in a wide variety of policy domains.
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Recognize limitations of traditional policy and regulatory approaches along with benefits of agile approaches during digital transformation.
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Describe approaches to developing policy frameworks for emerging technologies in a variety of international contexts.
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Implement innovative regulatory tools, such as foresight and anticipatory regulation, experimental regulation, and RegTech.
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Debate the benefits and risks of deploying emerging technologies in support of regulation.
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Select appropriate emerging tools and practices that suit the technology context and issue.
COURSE STRUCTURE
- Explain regulation and regulatory governance and provide concrete examples
- Summarize the public policy cycle and what occurs during each step
- Compare regulatory policy instruments and locate them along the policy cycle
- Identify and describe the main methods used to evaluate public policy
- Describe and explain different types of innovation (e.g., technological, organizational, social).
- Elaborate on intersections between regulation and digital transformation, including key issues and risks associated with emerging technologies.
- Discuss the impact of regulation on innovation, including main regulatory approaches to risk and precaution.
- Compare traditional regulation to adaptive and anticipatory regulation.
- Describe alternatives to traditional regulation, including self-regulation and co-regulation, and performance- or outcome-based regulation.
- Define directionality and explain how regulation can promote socially-relevant innovation.
- Explain the key features of emerging digital technologies, and the challenges they present to policymakers.
- Discuss how horizon scanning can be used to address policy needs.
- Give examples of experimental regulation and the shared characteristics of regulatory sandboxes.
- Summarize how technical protocols and standards can be used to address gaps in regulating online services.
- Explain current approaches to algorithmic regulation
- Analyze regulatory interventions from international case studies using understanding, knowledge, and tools from the previous units.
- Discuss regulatory alternatives and their direct and indirect impacts, with reference to case studies
- Develop evidence-based arguments in support of a specific policy proposal with colleagues
- Discuss with colleagues in public forum in support of a specific policy proposal and confront and criticize counterarguments presented by others.
- Identify the technological and policy trends that will shape the future approach to regulation and related methods and tools
- Discuss the role of humans and machines in the future of regulation
- Collectively formulate a set of key principles that should guide the regulation of emerging technologies in the future.
KNOWLEDGE AREAS
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- Connection: Access to high speed data network – not dial-up (wire, DSL, etc.)
- Processor: Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz / equivalent or superior processor (a dual core processor recommended)
- Operating System: Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows 7 & 8 with the latest updates installed (updates availables on: http://update.microsoft.com ), GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc)
- RAM Memory: 2+ Gigabytes RAM
- Hard Disk: 120 Gb
- SoundCard and speakers (headset (microphone, headphones) connected to the soundcard of the computer)
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Software: to install latest updates unless otherwise specified:
- Internet Browser: Firefox / Chrome / Internet Explorer 8 or superior
- Internet explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/ie
- Firefox: http://www.firefox.com
- Chrome: http://google.com/chrome
- Anti – virus: Current
- Office Automation: Microsoft Word 2003 or later, Libre, LibreOffice, OperOffice
- Java / JRE: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
- Adobe Flash Player: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
- Adobe Reader: http://get.adobe.com/reader
- QuickTime: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
- Certificate of course completion: If you meet the conditions for participation in the course and earn a point total more than 65 and less than 90
- Certificate of course completion with honors for excellence: If you meet the conditions for participation in the course and earn a point total above 90
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ABOUT INDES
- 1.Virtual courses: No refunds will be given for virtual courses. Participants will receive a course payment transfer which can be used for any courses offered by INDES during the next year.
- 2.Course payment transfer policy: If a participant requests to transfer his/her course payment to participate in a future edition of a course due to circumstances beyond his/her control (ex. health issues, family issues), the course coordinator will make the decision as to whether or not to grant him/her the transfer. It is important to note that course payment transfers are reserved exclusively for those persons who find themselves in an unexpected situation which prevents them from participating in the course. This privilege may only be used once. Depending on the course, a difference in course fees of a future edition to which the participant has transferred may apply
- 3.In case of dismissal: No refunds or course payment transfers will be given to a participant who is dismissed from a course due to inappropriate behavior as detailed in the participant dismissal policy
- Failure to complete two of the mandatory evaluated activities
- Failure of a participant to access the virtual classroom during the timeframe established in the course syllabus
- Any participant that continues to behave inappropriately in the virtual classroom after having received notification about his/her inappropriate behavior from the instructor/tutor and/or course coordinator concerning the inappropriate behavior.
- Supervising the didactic material and the description of the course activities
- Monitoring the course tutor
- Participating in some of the discussions during the course
- Defining the evaluation matrices and guidelines for course activities
- Reviewing participant evaluations and their corresponding academic certificates
- Intervening in possible appeals or disagreements between the instructor-tutor and participants in reference to said evaluations
- Respond to messages within 24 hours during the weekday and within 48 hours during the weekend
- Review submitted papers and provide feedback to participants within 3 days (72 hours)
- Notify a participant of losing his/her right to continue in the course in the case of not having adhered to his/her responsibilities as detailed in the participant section below
- Provide guidance to participants in the course dynamics and facilitate exchanges among participants
- Provide information relevant to participant performance at the end of the course
- Access the course at least once a day to keep informed of proposed course activities, lectures and tasks
- Fulfill proposed task requirements by the established deadlines, both individual and group activities
- Keep the instructor-tutor informed about any exceptional circumstances which may impede compliance with participant responsibilities in the course and submit incomplete assignments as indicated by the instructor-tutor
- Perform all required course work, individual as well as group activities. Actively participate in group activities. Group activity is obligatory. Failure to comply with this requirement will result in losing the right to access the classroom and the course
- Collaborate in the learning of other participants in the course, sharing experiences, ideas and lessons with the instructor-tutor and other participants
- Failure to access the classroom for more than one week
- Failure to participate in any group activities
- Failure to turn in or partial completion of three or more required activities
- Continued unacceptable behavior in the classroom after having been notified by the instructor-tutor and/or the course coordinator of this unacceptable behavior
- Participants should bring their grievances to their course coordinator for appropriate consideration
- Course coordinators will address grievances within a 48-hour period
- If the grievance is not satisfactorily addressed within this time frame, participants can bring grievances in the following link INDES-HELP