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> ... seems like a good idea, as long as everyone in the government isn't incompetent. For example, if we had governments with strong tech departments that coul
by daveguy 2y ago
> ... seems like a good idea, as long as everyone in the government isn't incompetent. For example, if we had governments with strong tech departments that could fund helping the development of...
The US had two very strong and competent tech departments -- 18F and USDS.
They got doge'd -- dismantled and coopted, respectively.
- rapnie 2y agoAll those competent departments. Dismantled on a whim. It is unbelievable. How many billions of investment dollars are wasted that way, spent during many years to organize such departments efficiently?
- datadrivenangel 2y ago18F and USDS were actually relatively cheap in the grand scale of government software procurement.