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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss a proposal from artificial intelligence executives for a global AI watchdog body, a controversial new bill in Pennsylvania that would create a statewide licensing regime for plumbers, and much more.

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Paul Leavoy's conversation with Cary Coglianese concludes with a discussion of regulation’s role in addressing climate change and managing new technologies like AI, how regulators can better communicate their successes in a media environment that focuses on negative headlines, and more.

The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss the early stages of a possible large-scale crackdown on the U.S.'s crypto industry, a new law in Colorado intended to protect licensees from penalization over marijuana-related activity, and much more.

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On this episode of Ascend Radio, Cary Coglianese, current director of the Penn Program on Regulation, sits down with Ascend Editor-in-Chief Paul Leavoy to discuss regulating in the era of misinformation, the efficacy of public engagement and performance metrics, and much more.

The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss the passage of the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact in Florida, new efforts in Michigan to license hunting and fishing guides, a bipartisan bill that would legalize marijuana in Ohio, and much more.

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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss Ontario's removal of Canadian work experience requirements for foreign-trained engineers, the push for online gaming regulation in Quebec, new legislation that would tighten licensing restrictions for assistant physicians in Missouri, and more.

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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss professional licensing reform in Georgia, calls for AI regulation in the U.S., a recent influx of nursing applicants in Nova Scotia, and much more.

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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss a new report outlining recommendations to strengthen the cybersecurity workforce in the public sector, an ongoing effort from GOP lawmakers to establish reciprocal licensing standards in Wisconsin, and much more.

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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Paul discusses telehealth licensure in New Jersey during COVID-19, a recent flood of international nursing applicants in Alberta, a new survey from the Center for Digital Government (CDG) on digital transformation, and much more.

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On this episode of Ascend Radio, Thomas Custers, Dan Faulkner, and Lynsay Nair sit down with Ascend Editor-in-Chief Paul Leavoy to discuss Ontario's College Performance Measurement Framework (CPMF) and how it helps government officials qualitatively and quantitatively track the efficacy of regulatory agencies over time.