THE ALGORITHMIC REGULATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: THEORETICAL AND PROGRAMMATIC MAPPING

• Grant number: 17/14412-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2018
• End date: January 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Public Policies
• Principal Investigator: Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira
• Grantee: Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira
• Host Institution: Centro de Engenharia, Modelagem e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (CECS). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Jerônimo Cordoni Pellegrini
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/14671-8 - The algorithmic regulation in the public sector: theoretical and programmatic mapping, BP.TT; 18/08367-4 - The algorithmic regulation in the public sector: theoretical and programmatic mapping, BP.TT

Abstract

The interdisciplinary research project seeks to map discursive practices that legitimize the use, regulation and governance of algorithms in the Public Sector, from monitoring diagnostics and proposals of automation and replacement of routines previously performed by public servants. English, Spanish and Portuguese content will be analyzed, between 2000 and 2018, from state, business and academic segments. The main research hypothesis is the increasing proliferation and implementation of algorithmic automation, machine learning and, specially, of predictive algorithms, regardless of their immediate benefits, consolidate discursive practices that imply increasing the technological corporations presence by defining important dynamics of public management, due to the complexity of the algorithms regulation. (AU)