2026 OpenFisca Conference - Policy Impact and Automation Projects - Phillipa Martin

Phillipa Martin speaks about how technology can be applied to policy design and ongoing management in novel ways. She presents two examples: the Policy Impact Project and AI in rules as code processes. The Policy Impact Project involved creating a digital twin of Australia's international student visa policy to monitor real-time impacts and detect anomalies. The rules as code project demonstrated a new Alpha Assembly Codify tool that automates the process of converting legislation into visual logic diagrams, creating test cases, and writing OpenFisca code to produce a digital policy twin.