[$] Rules as code for more responsive governance
Using rulesas code to help bridge the gaps between policy creation, itsimplementation, and its, often unintended, effects on people was thesubject of a talk by Pia Andrews on the first day of the inaugural Everything Open conference in Melbourne, Australia. Shehas long been exploring the space of open government,and her talk was a report on whatshe and others have been working on over the last seven years. Everything Open is the successorto the long-running, well-regarded linux.conf.au (LCA); Andrews (then Pia Waugh) gave the opening keynote at LCA 2017 inHobart, Tasmania, and helped organize the 2007 event in Sydney.