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Completely shambolic schoolboy errors!
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The sad thing is I don't see the public sector getting any better at this anytime soon.
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Competence and professionalism.
If not '/s'...might we ask what country you live in, and how much experience you have with government?
The sad thing is I don't see the public sector getting any better at this anytime soon.
Completely shambolic schoolboy errors!
The other day my mother tried to buy a train ticket. The payment went through, but something went wrong on the site and the ticket was not issued.
If this were just some e-commerce site, the payment provider would have had their head on a spike.
In this case she had to go through the usual return process.
Stuff like this is why I prefer to take a bus in Germany. Trains are overbooked with free tickets and promotions (free pass for entire summer for 50 euro). While underlying infrastructure is not ready for such load. It leads to delays and mistakes. Plus railway stations in Germany look like homeless shelters! On other side Germany has excellent motorway network. Flixbus is very cheap, quite comfortable, goes all the…
Flixbus is 50€ cheaper when traveling that route tomorrow but that's about all it has going for it.
I suspect that this is the root cause of this and for many other systems failing. When a project is created by the lowest bidder, as a one time effort with fluffy requirements why would they invest in proper architecture, planning or testing? Why would they invest in securing resources when they are paid anyway?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Competence and professionalism.
If not '/s'...might we ask what country you live in, and how much experience you have with government?
A standard —-or—- a prediction.
I expect my child to behave well at school but I expect my child will not.
> This project was implemented by the same agencies - MCI together with Caracal. I suspect that this is the root cause of this and for many other systems failing. When a project is created by the lowest bidder, as a one time effort with fluffy requirements why would they invest in proper architecture, planning or testing? Why would they invest in securing resources when they are paid anyway?
The peak of "state capacity" was undoubtedly WW2, when governments bypassed market mechanisms and became command economies. Out of necessity - war is the one venture in which failed state capacity can end the state itself, and the personal privileges of those running it and the elite around them.
It's not a coincidence that the centralized socialist institutions of the UK, the NHS and state education, date from that period. Heck, the state commissioned the invention and building of cutting-edge computer technology! But since that no longer matters, there's little to no will to build state capacity in computing.