The Power to Govern, the Duty to Account
CENTS Governance Academy

Executive & Specialist Programmes

Fiscal Data, Foresight and the Regulation of Innovation

The state already holds the data that would let it see risk coming, and rarely uses it. We teach officials to turn what they hold into foresight, and to govern innovation through a sandbox instead of a ban or a blind eye.

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Programme overview

The state already holds the data that would let it see risk coming, and rarely uses it. We teach officials to turn what they hold into foresight, and to govern innovation through a sandbox instead of a ban or a blind eye.

This specialised subject can be taken as a one-day working lab, three-day workshop, two-week specialised training, or curated institutional programme within published open windows.

Who should attend

Revenue analytics and research units, policy and planning departments, regulators and supervisory authorities, digital economy ministries.

Programme modules

Module spine

  1. 01

    Turning administrative data into risk scores, case selection and early warning

  2. 02

    Revenue forecasting and nowcasting under uncertainty, and the disclosure a decision-maker is owed

  3. 03

    Microsimulation for policy appraisal, and communicating a result a minister can act on

  4. 04

    Designing a regulatory sandbox: perimeter, safeguards, testing conditions, exit and graduation

  5. 05

    Governing artificial intelligence in revenue and regulatory administration

  6. 06

    Capstone: a data and innovation governance programme, with the legal basis for inter-agency data sharing

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