I’ve worked on a Singapore website sponsored by the major University and a Govt. office and frankly speaking, it’s a poorly managed process dominated by IT protocol more than business/client goals. The admin responsible for running the site was inept and his colleagues were worse. The person who inherited managing the complex web stack was a secretary with no dev skills. I hope it works out for them, but I’m not optimistic.
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#12Is there something similar to US Government.
At least for the design system, the answer is yes. The US Government Design System: https://designsystem.digital.gov/
Don't have the URL handy, but California has an amazing design system as well.
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#13Is there something similar to US Government.
At least for the design system, the answer is yes. The US Government Design System: https://designsystem.digital.gov/ Don't have the URL handy, but California has an amazing design system as well.
Something similar to what you mentioned, but for the state of Michigan
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#14This looks impressive, and something we (America) should copy. Man, I can't help wishing that if we had to have a dictator why couldn't it be someone (mostly) reasonable like Lee Kwan Yew.
I feel dictators/autocrats come in two flavors.
The first genuinely feel they know what is best for the country and how to best govern it. They might still enrich themselves and their cronies in the process of course.
The second are primarily out to enrich themselves and their cronies. The country exists to support this selfish goal.
Of course this is not black and white, but rather a spectrum but various historical figures seem to strongly lean to one side or the other.
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#15This looks impressive, and something we (America) should copy. Man, I can't help wishing that if we had to have a dictator why couldn't it be someone (mostly) reasonable like Lee Kwan Yew.
I feel dictators/autocrats come in two flavors. The first genuinely feel they know what is best for the country and how to best govern it. They might still enrich themselves and their cronies in the process of course. The second are primarily out to enrich themselves and their cronies. The country exists to support this selfish goal. Of course this is not black and white, but rather a spectrum but various historical…
And history repeatedly shows that even if you get a dictator of the first kind, it’s an unstable equilibrium of a system that eventually leads to a dictator of the second kind.
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#17Let’s not forget the whole fiasco with Singapore’s TraceTogether app for contact tracing during the pandemic. The actual implementation of it differs significantly from the white paper they open-sourced. The actual app does not anonymize the data and the government has access to everyone’s location and interaction data. Initially, their privacy policy promised the data would only be used for tracking of the spread of COVID but it was later revealed by the parliament that the police had in fact accessed the data for investigation purposes. There is no constitutional right to privacy in Singapore so they did not actually break any laws so it was mostly an “oops, too bad, we didn’t do anything ‘wrong’” moment for them.
https://www.sgtech.org.sg/SGTECH/Web/SGTech_News_2020/May20/...
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/31...
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#18Let’s not forget the whole fiasco with Singapore’s TraceTogether app for contact tracing during the pandemic. The actual implementation of it differs significantly from the white paper they open-sourced. The actual app does not anonymize the data and the government has access to everyone’s location and interaction data. Initially, their privacy policy promised the data would only be used for tracking of the spread of…
Good thing the United States has a constitutional amendment that totally protects us from having our location data harvested sold and deanonymized by thousands of data brokers!
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#19TLDR; It's a wishlist, not the current tech stack
Title is misleading
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#20Let’s not forget the whole fiasco with Singapore’s TraceTogether app for contact tracing during the pandemic. The actual implementation of it differs significantly from the white paper they open-sourced. The actual app does not anonymize the data and the government has access to everyone’s location and interaction data. Initially, their privacy policy promised the data would only be used for tracking of the spread of…
the road to hell is paved with good intentions let not forget SG is a sort of single party system with no real freedom of press.