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Dima and Slava talk to Vasyl, once CEO of ProZorro, about automation of the government and government services, dynamics of state-owned enterprises and getting back to "regular" business.
* ProZorro (https://prozorro.gov.ua/en) – public procurement service used by Ukrainian government
* State in a smartphone
* Starting from zero allow for leaps in adoption of new technology
* Does "technology" equal "no corruption"?
* If underlying process is bad, automation will just amplify it, not fix
* 10 Functions of the State (https://effectivestates.org/ten-functions-of-the-state/)
* Government is obliged to serve all citizens and cannot choose to have smaller marketshare
* Social Credit System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System) in China
* Arrow's impossibility theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem)
* Techno-optimists, techno-pessimists, and techno-realists
"What is the problem we are trying to solve?"
* "Nobody Gets Fired For Buying IBM" (https://www.forbes.com/sites/duenablomstrom1/2018/11/30/nobody-gets-fired-for-buying-ibm-but-they-should/)
* Risk acceptance and dependence on public opinion
