Government & Public Sector
Volterra have produced several reports commissioned by the FSA. These include a paper describing a model which explores the impacts of regret and information costs upon the overall gains people experience from increased choice. When choices are hard to make advice from friends and colleagues is crucial. The overall social network of 'who listens to who' is therefore a lynchpin of how ideas and behaviours can be spread through societies. A second paper for the FSA explores different types of network and their impact upon how ideas spread. A third piece of work for the FSA, carried out jointly with external consultant Pam Meadows considers the potential take up of a proposed new service – Basic Advice.
World Bank
We worked jointly with Enlightenment Economics on a project considering the effects of investment in ICT for developing countries. We used our technique of Tacit Knowledge Mapping to assess relevant aspects of an economy (existing ICT infrastructure, skills, institutional quality etc) and how they may effect the most appropriate ICT policy (physical, content, devices, skills, regulation) for investment consideration.