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Nadia: Politics | Bigotry | Artificial Intelligence Kindle Edition
Told by Marie Johnson, an eminent multi-award winning global digital vanguard, who was the Head of the Technology Authority for Australia’s National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and co-creator of Nadia. This is the first time this story has been told in full: she is the only person globally who can authentically tell the complete arc of the iconoclastic Nadia story.
This first person inside story reveals that the Nadia Artificial Intelligence innovation was at the epicentre of a blistering politico-techno-human rights fight and the bigoted ugly politics engulfing Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Into the vortex of a toxic deskilled government bureaucracy, spun the exploding global competition of the powerful AI platforms of IBM Watson and Microsoft.
Also exposed for the first time, is the coincidence and timing of the Nadia project and the unlawful and deadly RoboDebt program which would become a politically explosive interplay. This intertwined hidden brutal story is revealed.
This book is not only an inside expert account of this shocking history but delivers with extraordinary evidence, the business case and methodology, describing in detail the actual work that was done in creating Nadia. The book peels through the sinewy layers of politics, bigotry, and the rise of Artificial Intelligence, and delves into new frontiers of co-design, human rights, machine learning, algorithms, and trust.
The arc of the Nadia story as it unfolds throughout this book is of the extraordinary achievement driven by people with disability, not celebrated by Australia, yet recognised as one of the world’s most advanced projects in Artificial Intelligence that helped kick-start the digital human industry. So significant is this new revolutionary industry, that China recently declared an Action Plan to dominate the digital human field globally.
Global luminaries have spoken about the game changing application of the Nadia innovation in healthcare and access to justice, and we get to meet some of these extraordinary people.
The stakes are high.
The creation of Nadia was a defining horizon in the era of Artificial Intelligence, and this first-person inside account by the co-creator of Nadia is intellectually uncompromising.
Notably, this book is being seen as future required reading for academic courses on artificial humans. Is it any wonder that there is almost an insatiable global appetite for and intrigue about the full Nadia story?
Book launched on 16 February 2024, seven years to the day since Nadia was first introduced to the world.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date16 February 2024
- File size16301 KB
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- ASIN : B0CSK383L4
- Language : English
- File size : 16301 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 353 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 286,871 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author
Marie Johnson is an eminent multi-award winning global digital authority. She is an author, writer and sought after speaker on Artificial Intelligence and cyber; an outspoken advocate for the humanitarian application of AI; and a relentless inclusion and accessibility advocate.
At the forefront of Digital Transformation for decades - from the earliest days of the Internet, to current times working in AI and augmented service delivery.
Marie was awarded the prestigious US Government O-1 Visa for Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement for her former role as Microsoft’s Worldwide Executive Director of Public Services and eGovernment, with Microsoft stating Marie’s egovernment knowledge ‘...is unique in the world and is of particular interest to Microsoft as we pursue our egovernment strategies’.
Marie was the Head of the Technology Authority for Australia’s National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and co-creator of Nadia.
At the forefront of digital transformation for decades - Marie’s expertise includes the human experience in and geopolitics of complex servicing systems. Marie’s track record across the public and private sector in Australia and internationally, covers health and human services; disability services; global ehealth immigration and visa systems; tax; identity; and payments.
The expanse of roles includes large scale service delivery operations; global technology; Chief Information Officer; Chief Technology Architect; intelligence analyst; and board director.
She has successfully led and delivered major economy-wide and international digital transformation projects. Throughout her career, Marie’s extraordinary expertise has been sought by world leaders and global organisations on the geo-political and democratic dynamics of national technology.
The innovation and digital initiatives Marie has led have been recognised globally. Marie was recognised as the 2006-2007 ‘Innovative CIO of the Year – Australia’; named one of Australia’s ‘100 Women of Influence” in 2013; and awarded the ‘Exceptional Woman of Excellence’ at the 2019 Women Economic Forum.
Marie’s most cherished honour by far, is the 2022 ACT Mental Health Carer Award, recognising twenty years in the fight for justice as a mental health carer and advocate.
Marie is a fitness enthusiast, weight lifter and hiker. She has been an active supporter of cardiac health and cancer research as a donor, fundraiser and active participant. This included shaving her head (yep, bald) for the World’s Greatest Shave, and running the 2012 London Marathon raising funds for the Leukaemia Foundation. Together Marie and Allan Johnson, a heart patient, ran the 2011 Melbourne Marathon, raising funds for the Australian Heart Foundation.
Marie’s latest challenge is training for the ‘Murph Challenge’. The Murph Challenge is a powerful reminder of the sacrifices made by our military and a testament to the strength and resilience of the human spirit.
Marie has said that the Murph Challenge training will likely take three years. Allan Johnson, who is an Australian Veteran, will be her coach. As with training for the marathons, Marie’s goal is to commit to training; to complete the Challenge safely; and enjoy it.
When asked, will she finish? Marie’s response is, who knows. But she will start. Marie says that one thing’s for sure. If you don’t start, you’ll never know what could have been possible.
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The current and emerging technologies provide public sector managers with both challenges and opportunities to produce highly cost effective, client focused solutions that can be accessed by all, regardless of their sophistication in the use of technology.
The document also provides senior decision makers with how innovations can emerge from any community and that concepts such as co-design can be potent and high value alternative to the current approaches favoured by timid managers that produce spectacular cost over runs and failures with millions of taxpayers’ dollars wasted to fund the lifestyles of the various suits ( commonly carrying bags constructed from carpet material) that populate the diaries of senior public sector managers.
Co-design exercises, overseen by senior managers are a better pathway to the effective use of powerful technologies that the current rampant use of expensive consultantware of dubious efficacy.
The author also exposes a fundamental fact that innovation can be bottom up rather than the top down approaches that are burdened by cumbersome bureaucratic overheads that lack agility and will discourage real innovation.
This work also documents the fact that public sector needs can drive innovative communities to solutions that can stimulate the SME IT sector to thrive and build a vibrant indigenous technology sector. NADIA has left our shores and is evolving overseas. Shame on the managers who stopped it, and stifled local innovation.
The book also provides insight into the failed approach to IT driven by a central agency under the wing of the Department of Finance which has held this responsibility for over 20 years with multiple precursor agencies to the Digital Transformation Agency wasting billions of dollars on failed whole of government pipe dreams.
Hopefully the well documented abrupt termination of the NADIA project will stimulate some senior managers to understand the failure by the Services Australia managers to recognise the merits of NADIA and look to embracing the approach that this project team used. That is that bottom up innovation founded on co-design exercises with the community has significant potential to assist the department make effective use of its staff and the technologies available to it.