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Strypeystrypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Aug 15, 2026, 8:02 AM
"The government chief digital officer - the watchdog of all public IT projects - has told ministers there must be more centralisation."
#PhilPennington, 2026
"Too many investments are overly large and span multi-years, rather than taking less risky, incremental investment and delivery approaches."
#PaulJames, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/science-and-technology/969681/more-tech-projects-struggling-as-govt-tries-to-overhaul-siloed-syste
The problem can't be under-centralisation *and* over-centralisation. Pick one (pssst, it's the latter).
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Strypeystrypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Aug 15, 2026, 8:09 AM
The biggest problem, in hindsight, is that governments have rushed into digitization as a cost-cutting measure - particularly a way to prune staff - instead of seeing it as long-term infrastructure investment. Which like the transport system needs careful planning, and slow and steady transitions, with existing system maintained in parallel as a fallback.
The shortsighted over-dependence on a cartel of proprietary tech corporations is both a cause and an amplifier of this problem.
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