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8 01, 2025

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: Looking back to look ahead: Future research to preserve public values in the Automated State

By Malavika Raghavan, Alexandra Sinclair, Giulia Gentile and Orla Lynskey| 2025-01-16T13:36:52+00:00 January 8th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: automated state, DigiPublicValues, public values|0 Comments

Post 10 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Malavika Raghavan, Alexandra Sinclair, Giulia Gentile and Orla Lynskey This blog series examined the insights emerging from the CIVICA-funded DigiPublicValues project on the implications for public values when digital systems provided by private operators become embedded within the State. Key values of publicness, proportionality, [...]

17 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in the Automated State: The Future of Digital Infrastructure: A PPP Perspective

By Jessica Breaugh and Gerhard Hammerschmid| 2024-12-17T19:40:16+00:00 December 17th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: automated state, digital infrastructure, Digitpublicvalues, PPP, public values|0 Comments

Post 8 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Jessica Breaugh and Gerhard Hammerschmid. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have emerged as a prominent strategy for governments to deliver public services and infrastructure, particularly in the realm of digitalization. By combining the resources and expertise of both public and private sectors, PPPs aim to [...]

17 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in the Automated State: Public Procurement, Digitalisation, and the Values Challenges

By Albert Sanchez-Graells| 2024-12-17T19:40:29+00:00 December 17th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: automated state, commercial determination, digitalisation, Public procurement, public values, regulatory capture|0 Comments

Post 7 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Albert Sanchez-Graells, Professor of Economic Law, University of Bristol Law School The public sector is in a quickly accelerating process of digitalisation. The mainstreaming of data-driven technologies such as artificial intelligence (Yeung, 2022), and ever increasing financial pressures pushing public authorities to chase [...]

17 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: The role of soft law in the digital state: Supporting or eroding public values?

By Malavika Raghavan| 2025-01-16T13:39:23+00:00 December 17th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: automated state, bureaucracy, DigiPublicValues, digital, proceduralism, public values, socio-technical, soft law|0 Comments

Post 9 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Malavika Raghavan The role of soft law in the digital state: Supporting or eroding public values? Malavika Raghavan Embedding digital technologies into public service provision raises many questions for citizens in a “digital” state. What do we do when the computer [...]

10 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: Proportionality

By Natalia Menéndez González and Spyros Syrrakos| 2024-12-10T17:11:12+00:00 December 10th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: algorithmic due process, delegation of state functions, economic considerations, privatised digital systems, proportionality, public values|0 Comments

Post 6 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Natalia Menéndez González and Spyros Syrrakos Proportionality successfully dominates modern democratic constitutionalism. We may live in an analogue ‘age of proportionality’, however, the unprecedented digital transformation upends its foundations, rendering the ‘private’ and ‘public’ boundaries porous. Primarily, private platforms assume a quasi-regulatory [...]

10 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: Public Services Lost in Digitalisation: Re-positioning Accountability

By Anna Morandini and Deirdre Curtin| 2024-12-10T17:12:46+00:00 December 10th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: good governance, privatised digital systems, public accountability, public values, transparency|0 Comments

Post 5 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Deirdre Curtin and Anna Morandini Digitalisation intensifies public-private cooperation in a manner that is often at the expense of core public values. From local schools to federal ministries, public entities enlist private companies to engage in the carrying out of their public [...]

26 11, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: The Public Law Duck Test or ‘Pubcliness’: why are we so obsessed with Public Law in Law & Tech?

By Francisco de Abreu Duarte| 2024-11-26T08:41:44+00:00 November 26th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: automated state, law and tech, Pubcliness, public interest, Public Law Duck, public values|0 Comments

Post 4 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Francisco de Abreu Duarte We all know the famous duck test scenario. Although it often leads to absurd results, as Monty Python superbly demonstrated, it is a reasonable and very human reasoning to make: if something acts, sounds, and looks like something [...]

26 11, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: Participation in Privatised Digital Systems

By Marco Almada and Estela Lopes| 2024-11-26T08:43:29+00:00 November 26th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: automated state, DigiPublicValues, participation, public values, public-in-loop|0 Comments

Post 3 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Marco Almada and Estela Lopes In modern democracies, citizen participation is not limited to elections. Lawmakers and administrators are often expected—and at times obliged—to involve citizen perspectives in their work. For example, Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union obliges the [...]

12 11, 2024

Guest Blog Series: Preserving Public Values in The Automated State

By Giulia Gentile and Orla Lynskey| 2024-11-26T08:30:09+00:00 November 12th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems., Uncategorized|Tags: automated state, DigiPublicValues, digital technology, privatisation, public values|0 Comments

Introduction to the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Orla Lynskey, UCL Laws and the College of Europe, Bruges and Giulia Gentile, Essex Law School. As automated technologies such as artificial intelligence capture the imagination of the public, States have a renewed impetus to avail of the opportunities these technologies offer, including [...]

12 11, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: Digital Constitutionalism: What is it, what is at stake, and how is the current research distinct

By Giovanni De Gregorio and Oreste Pollicino| 2024-11-26T08:31:54+00:00 November 12th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: algorithmic society, automated state, Digital consitutionalism, digital technology, digitalisation, Europe, privatised digital systems, public values|0 Comments

Post 2 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Giovanni De Gregorio, PLMJ Chair in Law and Technology, Católica Global School of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon and Oreste Pollicino, Full Professor of Constitutional Law, Bocconi University, Milan. The spread of digital technologies has profoundly affected society, fundamentally altering how people live, work, [...]