It is incredibly difficult to protect a system of someone – the villain of Doge – who has made her way inside and wants to destroy it. This administration is in the file as wishing to completely delete whole departments. Accelerator define not only the strategy but Implement it by working within the administration. If you can’t delete a department, then why not break it until it doesn’t work?
This is why Doge does is a massive and terrifying problem, and I spoke earlier in a Subject on Bluesky.
The government is built to be stable. Collectively, we set up systems and rules to ensure this stability. But if they provide and preserve stability in the real world, it is not really the technology used; These are people who use it. In the end, technology is a tool to use by humans for human purposes. The software used to manage our democratically elected government is deployed to achieve objectives related to policies: to collect money from people or give money to states so that they can give money to people eligible for Food coupons or providing sivrant tests.
Usually our experience of government technology is that it is obsolete or slow or unreliable. Certainly not as brilliant as we see in the private sector. And this technology changes very, very slowly, if it happens at all.
It is not as if people did not realize that these systems could do with modernization. According to my experience, the troubleshooting and modernization of government systems in California and the federal government, I worked with Head Start, Medicaid, child protection and logistics at the Ministry of Defense. Some of these systems were already undergoing modernization attempts, many of which were and continued to be late, on the budget, or simply broken. But the changes necessary to make other systems more modern were often considered too risky or too expensive. In other words, not important enough.
Of course, certain changes are considered quite important. The COVVI-19 pandemic and our unemployment insurance systems offer good examples. When cocvated, some critical government technologies have suddenly become visible. These systems, such as unemployment insurance portals, have also become politically important, as is the launch of the website of the Acting Affordable Care Act (which is why he drew so much attention when he was sloppy ).
Political attention can change everything. During the pandemic, it was suddenly not possible to modernize and modernize government systems, or make them simpler, clearer and faster to use. He In fact, it happened. The teams were parachuted. Too restrictive rules and procedures have been reassessed and relaxed. Suddenly, government employees were authorized to work remotely and to use Slack.