Event recap: Fixing procurement for the era of AI
At TIAL’s latest event, procurement finally had its moment in the spotlight — not as bureaucracy’s dull(er) cousin, but as a secret weapon for institutional innovation.
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The ideas that spark and sustain the craft of institutional architecture.
New approaches to anticipatory regulation: the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) in the UK and the new AI regulators
New regulatory bodies like the UK’s Regulatory Innovation Office signal a growing recognition that institutions must adapt to govern emerging technologies.
Artificial Intelligence and tackling the challenge of designing new public institutions
The challenge When new tasks come along, often new institutions have to be created too. Modern government can be thought of as an assembly of these institutions, some old like prison services and police, schools and welfare, some newer like utility regulators and digital agencies. Powerful technologies tend to require a lot of institutional innovation.
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Building space for an institutional design intervention
Institutional design offers untapped potential to drive and sustain meaningful social change. Based on a conversation between the TIAL founders, which you can find here, these are the experiences they’ve had in building new institutions: the peaks, the pits, and the lessons. We hope that these steps contribute to building a field for institutional design
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The practice of Institutional Architecture
It’s very easy to make sweeping generalizations about institutions, but these are very hard to connect back to specific, tangible – perhaps actionable – guidance on designing or retrofitting effective, resilient, institutions for particular contexts and problems. What we’re trying to do at TIAL is to fill in the middle space between the abstract and
Part 1: What is institutional architecture anyway?
Featured image: Maarten Deckers TIAL Co-founders Sir Geoff Mulgan, Jessica Seddon, and Juha Leppänen sat down together recently for a conversation led by Jessica on Institutional Architecture — what it is, how it works, and why it’s important to build a thriving, learning, field of practice around upgrading and designing new institutions. The following transcript
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Part 2: Why build an Institutional Architecture Field?
Featured image: Miquel Parera This is Part 2 of a discussion between TIAL Co-founders Sir Geoff Mulgan, Jessica Seddon, and Juha Leppänen, who sat down together recently to discuss Institutional Architecture — what it is, how it works, and why it’s essential to build a thriving, learning, field of practice around upgrading and designing new
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