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Regulation & Technological Innovation: Opportunities, Challenges and Emerging Approaches
2nd Edition

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Sep 14, 2023

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What is an instructor-led online course?
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COURSE TYPE

ONLINE TUTOR

SESSION

Sep 18, 2023 - Dec 04, 2023

ALSO OFFERED

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COST
Free - by invitation only

LANGUAGE

English

TIME COMMITMENT

66 horas - 11 semanas

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Learn how to manage digital regulation with innovative tools in our course for Latin American and Caribbean professionals and improve your public policy skills. 

This course is the result of a collaboration between the Inter-American Development Bank and the European University Institute (EUI).

AUDIENCE OF THE COURSE

The target audience for this course is regulatory decision-makers with basic knowledge of the regulatory process and policy evaluation methods.

COST & REIMBURSEMENTS

For those invited to the course, it is free of charge as it is sponsored by the Interamerican Development Bank.

COURSE STRUCTURE

Introduction to Regulation and Governance

  1. Explain regulation and regulatory governance and provide concrete examples.
  2. Summarize the public policy cycle and what occurs during each step.
  3. Compare regulatory policy instruments and locate them along the policy cycle.
  4. Identify and describe the main methods used to evaluate public policy.

Regulation and Innovation: friends or foes?

  1. Describe and explain different types of innovation (e.g., technological, organizational, social).
  2. Elaborate on intersections between regulation and digital transformation, including key issues and risks associated with emerging technologies.
  3. Discuss the impact of regulation on innovation, including main regulatory approaches to risk and precaution.
  4. Compare traditional regulation to adaptive and anticipatory regulation.
  5. Describe alternatives to traditional regulation, including self-regulation and coregulation, and performance- or outcome-based regulation.
  6. Define directionality and explain how regulation can promote socially-relevant innovation.

How the digital revolution challenges regulators

  1. Explain the key features of emerging digital technologies and the challenges they present to policymakers.
  2. Discuss how horizon scanning can be used to address policy needs. 
  3. Give examples of experimental regulation and the shared characteristics of regulatory sandboxes.
  4. Summarize how technical protocols and standards can be used to address gaps in regulating online services.
  5. Explain current approaches to algorithmic regulation. 

Case studies at the frontier of regulation and technological innovation

  1. Analyze regulatory interventions from international case studies using understanding, knowledge, and tools from the previous units.
  2. Discuss regulatory alternatives and their direct and indirect impacts, with reference to case studies.

Presentations on emerging topics in the field of regulation and innovative technologies

  1. Develop evidence-based arguments in support of a specific policy proposal with colleagues.
  2. Discuss with colleagues in public forum in support of a specific policy proposal and confront and criticize counterarguments presented by others.

The future of regulatory management: preconditions for agile, smart governance

  1. Identify the technological and policy trends that will shape the future approach to regulation and related methods and tools.
  2. Discuss the role of humans and machines in the future of regulation.
  3. Collectively formulate a set of key principles that should guide the regulation of emerging technologies in the future.

KNOWLEDGE AREAS

SECTORS
Regional integration
Labor Markets
Social Investment
TOPICS
Development of Institutions
Economics and Development
Social Development
COMPETENCIES
Critical, Analytical, and Creative Thinking
Development effectiveness
Planning and organizing
Problem Analysis & Synthesis
Results-Based Management

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