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The Consequences of Leaving Tech to the Private Sector w/ Rosie Collington

Tech Won't Save Us

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What Are the Impacts of the Neoliberal Turn on Government IT Infrastructure?

I think that's a really good question and probably we need to look back or situate this within the kind of broader developments is just alluded to. So perhaps I can begin by saying a little bit about why I became interested or how I became interested in this area. This IT infrastructure public sector digitalization epitomizes in many ways, not just the kind of neoliberal term but actually what happened from the 1990s with the growth of third way paradigms of governance. The state as conceptualized in governments such as Clinton's government or the Tony Blair government was supposed to exist and had an important function as the arbiter or the sleeper,. the steerer of markets and of the economy.

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