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Book SynopsisThe digital transformation of the public sector has accelerated. States are experimenting with technology, seeking more streamlined and efficient digital government and public services. However, there are significant concerns about the risks and harms to individual and collective rights under new modes of digital public governance. Several jurisdictions are attempting to regulate digital technologies, especially artificial intelligence, however regulatory effort primarily concentrates on technology use by companies, not by governments. The regulatory gap underpinning public sector digitalisation is growing.As it controls the acquisition of digital technologies, public procurement has emerged as a ''regulatory fix'' to govern public sector digitalisation. It seeks to ensure through its contracts that public sector digitalisation is trustworthy, ethical, responsible, transparent, fair, and (cyber) safe. However, in Digital Technologies and Public Procurement: Gatekeeping and Experimentat
Table of ContentsPart I Introduction 1: Introduction 2: The Two Roles of Procurement in the Transition Towards Digital Public Governance Part II Regulating Public Sector Digitalization by Contract 3: Regulating Public and Private Interactions Through Procurement 4: Procurement Tools for Digital 'Regulation by Contract' 5: Discharging Procurement of the Digital Regulation Role Part III Experimenting with Public Sector Digitalization 6: The Technological Promise of Digital Governance: Procurement as a Case Study of 'Policy Irresistibility' 7: Revisiting the Promise: A Feasibility Boundary for Digital Procurement Governance 8: Identifying Emerging Risks in Digital Procurement Governance 9: Governing the Assessment and Taking of Risks in Digital Procurement Governance Part IV Conclusion 10: Conclusion
