Exciting to hear about the opportunities available with machine readable legislation. You can read a blog and full report on Better Rules for Government discovery report here. Some notes from the session:

• The original EFTPOS – great idea, but…user experience was awful, no policy around it
• Designing for a chatbot – we're moving into a different world “people won’t want to (or have time) to read stuff”

• Designing for the world around us – has to be logical for the computer to understand it
  
• We’re working in the “motivation” domain – the why
  
• “People should be able to understand what the policy people write, right?” :)
  
• There is not a model that underpins the policy or law space – something that helps you understand how the law is constructed 
  
• How we develop regulations in a way that humans can understand it and can be interpreted by a machine – “thinking about the law as a set of code”
  
• Joint venture between MBIE, Innovation Lab (DIA), IRD (providing IP) and PCO
  
• Current process – very disconnected set of information created
  
• Moving from waterfall to iterative
  
• Wanted to see how could get all the different people in the room that were talking their own language – a multi-disciplinary team
  
• How do we make sure we’re all talking about the same thing from the start?