This guide introduces Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) for public sector decisions. MCDA blends stakeholder input with quantitative models to evaluate options against competing objectives. Focusing on classic compensatory methods, it helps users assign scores to alternatives, revealing preferred choices through structured, transparent, and evidence-based decision-making processes.

This annotated bibliography provides a summary of literature focused on the introductory themes of transparency and accountability, and their relationship with policy-making and good governance. The selected studies present a historical overview of how these concepts have evolved over the years, and the way in which different governments have interpreted what accessible information and evidence...

The authors of this report argue that the lessons learned from the implementation of 'Robodebt' provide a critical opportunity for reflection, urging policy-makers, technologists and legal experts to collaborate in designing systems that ensure fair and equitable outcomes, while leveraging the benefits of automation to improve administrative processes.

This literature summary is the first output of Digital Platform Regulators Forum (DP-REG)’s joint work in exploring relevant digital platform technologies and their regulatory implications. Each DP-REG member is also separately considering more specific harms stemming from AI relevant to their respective mandates.

The NDIS is designed to have people with lived experience of disability at its centre. This means that people have choice and control over their funding and supports and ultimately over their own lives. This paper discusses the concept of 'supporting' rather than 'substituting' the decisions of people with disability.