Contesting the Foundations of Digital Public Infrastructure – transcript of event recording Victoria

We're going to hear from experts from the civil society organizations that have been at the forefront of some of these challenges, and we will hear about the issues and the harms at hand in the varied case studies to understand some of the realities of the implementation of these foundational systems in specific contexts. [...] And now the twist also comes in that at the end of the day, when you try to rectify that error, that is a whole cumbersome process, and I'm not just talking about the financial implication, but in terms of the, you know, the rigors, the time that you have to take, and also the legal requirements that attend that process. [...] The government said it will address the issue of the error of exclusion and the error of inclusion within the system of social protection, but unfortunately actually the results of the implementation of the law are not that beneficial for the most vulnerable communities. [...] We are still waiting for the court to decide on the case and at this point what is the most concerning is that actually that even the idea of suspending the implementation of the law until the court decides is not going very well. [...] And one of the things that comes across really strongly in Kundera's writing is how insidious the police state was in the Czech Republic during the communist era and the elaborateness of the surveillance state and the surveillance economies around that.