The Essence of Leadership
*Morrison government announces new federal anti-corruption commission - The Guardian
How France’s Yellow Vests Are Plotting Online Bloomberg
Global Wealth Report 2018: US and China in the lead Credit Suisse
Facial recognition has to be regulated to protect the public, says AI report MIT Technology Review
maketecheasier: “When you’re doing research on a topic, it’s vital to ensure your sources are up to date. If you’re writing an academic paper, dates of publication are often required in the citations. The majority of the time, getting the date is easy: simply look on the site and find the “published on” date to find out how recent it was. Things get a little more complicated when there is no date listed on the webpage. When this happens, how do you know when the page was published?…”
VERONA BURGESS: Two in five APS employees wonder what their senior officials are contributing to the agency’s work. These 'missing-in-action' executives might want to update their New Year's resolutions.
Most of New Zealand's public service leaders are women
NZ: Women have been appointed to a majority of New Zealand’s public service leadership roles for the first time, says Minister for State Services, Chris Hipkins.
◾ NZ gender pay plan: government hopes to go from laggard to leader
Security review finds online voting OK for NSW, calls for national platform
iVOTE: An independent review finds the NSW online voting system secure enough for the next state election, but says security needs to be constantly improved as more people use it ‒ and that it should be expanded to a national level.
Why autonomous vehicles won't reduce our dependence on cars in cities
TRANSPORT: The arrival of autonomous vehicles would ideally reduce the number of cars on our roads. But this is a pipedream without a robust public transport system and willingness to share.
Bringing intelligence to government decision-making
For government, being able to streamline or automate high-frequency, low-risk decisions is critical. A recent seminar in Canberra, hosted by The Mandarin and supported by SAS discussed this topic in depth. (Partner article)
How can Australia keep up with new cancer treatments?
A new wave of cancer treatments is on our doorstep. And they have the potential to revolutionise the way we treat cancer. (Partner article)
The New York Times – Prof. Ronald Wright – “A new study from North Carolina confirms some long-held folk wisdom about race and juries. The good news is there are two doable solutions. Race, as a matter of constitutional principle, cannot factor into the selection of jurors for criminal trials. But in the American justice system, anyone with a bit of common sense and a view from the back of the courtroom knows the colorblind ideal isn’t true in practice.Racial bias largely seeps in through what’s called “peremptory” challenges: the ability of a prosecutor — and then a defense attorney — to block a certain number of potential jurors without needing to give the court any reason for the exclusion. The number of challenges allowed varies by state, but commonly 15 or more are permitted. Folk wisdom, among those familiar with the song and dance, is that prosecutors use these challenges to remove nonwhite jurors, who are statistically more likely to acquit, while defense attorneys — who can step in only after the pool has been narrowed by prosecutors — typically counteract by removing more white jurors.For a long time, the opacity of court records rendered the dynamic as only that — folk wisdom — which has made it difficult to articulate the urgent need to reform this understudied aspect of our system. But now, this informal knowledge has been empirically confirmed, and the case for change couldn’t be more compelling
My recently published research on juror removal in North Carolina conducted with colleagues at the Wake Forest University School of Law proves — for the first time with statewide evidence — that peremptory challenges are indeed a vehicle for veiled racial bias that results in juries less sympathetic to defendants of color. Based on statewide jury selection records, our Jury Sunshine Project discovered that prosecutors remove about 20 percent of African-Americans available in the jury pool, compared with about 10 percent of whites. Defense attorneys, seemingly in response, remove more of the white jurors (22 percent) than black jurors (10 percent) left in the post-judge-and-prosecutor pool…”
