Indonesia Solves Problem of Too Many Platforms for App Access by Releasing a New Platform
quietus writes:
Take Indonesia's President, Joko Widodo, for example. He sees the true plight of his people, and wants to do something about it.
The plight, in this case, is that Indonesia's Administration, in the name of public accessibility and user friendliness, has created an estimated 27,000 apps for hapless Indonesians to "navigate" their (supposedly public) services. One department -- probably the smallest -- has created 500 of the gleaming critters. It is only a guess how many of these are only (somewhat) accessible through smart phones, require a crap ton of captchas to solve, an electronic identity card, a special reader for that electronic identity card, a scan of your birth certificate, a digital signature on that scan, details of your last family status including the full and spelling correct names of all family members to the third degree separation, and the colour of your underwear, and all that just to enter and be notified that you need another application for what you want to do.
So, the Joko, [w]ants to reduce the thicket to something more manageable, say a few thousand.
"The presence of bureaucracy should serve, not complicate things and not slow them down ... There can be no more excuses for this and that because I feel that the data belongs to me, the data belongs to my ministry, the data belongs to my institution, the data belongs to my regional government - that's no longer allowed."
Oh, the naivete. Of course, of course, that statement was made on the occasion of the launch of a new platform,
... an integrated platform for government services expected to help contain the problematic platform proliferation when it commences in September.
Its ultimate goal is one observers of digital government services will find familiar: offering citizens a single login that accesses government services through a portal, while agencies all share access to a single set of personal data.
Heh.
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