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Kay Engelhardt
Innovations in policy making: Data, Artificial Intelligence and Behavioural Insights

"Traditional policy-making is prone to suffer from conscious or unconscious biases of those designing interventions (i.e. race, education, political ideology) that might contribute to ineffective policies - or policies whose effects are largely unknown. 
In recent years, policy-makers have been under increasing scrutiny to deliver effective and efficient services, giving rise to so-called “evidence-based” policies. This course gives an overview of three key innovations in the field: the use of (administrative / beneficiary) data to plan, monitor and evaluate policies; employing “Big Data” and "Artificial Intelligence” to uncover hidden - yet meaningful - patterns; and factoring in findings from applied behavioural science to develop effective, user-centric interventions and policies. 
The course will go beyond the hype around these approaches by demystifying those concepts and discuss practical governance and ethical implications around them."