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Local government SaaS. There's so much business processing in local government whose cost could be cut by an order of magnitude if extracted into external soft
by spacebanana7 3y ago
Local government SaaS.
There's so much business processing in local government whose cost could be cut by an order of magnitude if extracted into external software. In an inflationary world with stretched budgets, this could add much needed resources to public services.
For example, instead of each police force building their own video reporting system they could share an external one. Similar for booking GP appointments, managing jury duty, applying for council tax discounts and managing parking permits.
People might critique this comment by referring to SaaS solutions which already solve these problems. However, none of these are adopted at scale.
The biggest barrier to widespread adoption lies in the sales process. Marketing to governments is hard and the challenge of effectively addressing privacy/ethics/sovereignty concerns is bigger than with most private sector actors.
- warrenm 3y agoThat was more-or-less the premise of the company profiled in Startup.com[0], govWorks They were somewhere between 6-10 years too early - but had a great premise for a company ------- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup.com
- mu53 3y ago[dead]