ADM Institutionalised: Public Sector Governance. ADM Nordic perspectives: 3rd Workshop

Description

Over the last few years, we’ve seen much piloting of ADM and predictive systems in the public sector, and related movement in the notions of how to govern these new initiatives. For the Nordics, in particular, there seems to be a formative period with regards to how ADM will be institutionalised, operationalised and governed. Drawing from two former workshops, we therefore address in the coming meeting institutional perspectives and normative responses to ADM in the public sector. We are interested in which aspects of ADM in public agencies are moving from piloting to implementation on a larger scale. For example, what are the core ideas or values that become embodied in this type of institutionalisation? From an empirical perspective, what values and insights do contextualised studies of the situated uses of ADM bring to inform governance? From a governance perspective – ranging from ethics guidelines to administrative law and the European proposal for an AI Act – what implications, needs, tensions and conflicts can be traced?

We ask these questions, because in building bridges between governance and the practical realities of people implicated by ADM in organisational and everyday life, the possible tensions and problems need to be taken into account. Think of informed consent and transparency, for instance, in light of the practical needs and experiences of citizens in relation to ADM. The overall purpose of this workshop is to deepen both empirical and theoretical insights on the institutionalisation of ADM systems in the Nordic region and query what notions that govern them.

The rationale for asking the following questions, we argue, is that detailed knowledge is quintessential if we want to steer ADM onto a path that sustains the high level of trust that citizens in the Nordic countries have in relation to governing bodies.

Period	2022 Apr 6 → 2022 Apr 7
Event type	Workshop
Location	Lund, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International