How can we increase the transparency, participation, accountability, fairness and effectiveness of the regulatory making process?

The game is (constantly) changing, and the rules need to keep changing as well. Yet the prevailing logic of regulatory innovation is too often driven by corporate demands. This tends to reduce it from a fundamental and inclusive discussion about public value(s) to a narrow concept of ‘unburdening’ business and unleashing the disruptive power of unicorn companies — rather than responding to more diverse sources of demand for change, such as the multiple crises of our time (climate break- down; rising inequality; declining trust; runaway technology; populism and nationalism in politics).

Les Interstice worked with Dark Matter Labs as part of the The Network of Governance & Regulatory Experimentation by organizing a meetup in Toronto (2019) on these questions, as well as produced a Provocation Playbook, in collaboration with the Community of Federal Regulators in Canada, the McConnell Foundation and MaRS, and called for the implementation of a network of regulatory experimentation (RegX, for short) labs in Canada though Legitimacities. Les interstices also helped establish a first regulatory experimentation lab in Montréal in collaboration with la MIS: LICER.

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