Slashdot reports a Washington Times story claiming that one senior executive at a government agency spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his computer. It's important to to remember that the Sun Myung Moon-funded Times has its own very conservative axe to grind. But if this is true, I wonder if it's a contributing factor to why many government Web projects seem to have no requirements for the evaluation of digital media while funding same.
The larger, sadder, more expensive issue is the ongoing loss to American government - and business - from poor use of technology. Bad decisions, bad builds, lack of objective evaluation. No oversight. No accountability.
The for-profit world moves too quickly for its own good sometimes. The non-profit and government sectors may not feel the same sense of urgency. Time for them to address important issues - like why technology projects need a plan, a purpose, and objective evaluation. We've expressed this sentiment in many environments; it seems to fall on mostly deaf ears. Fiddling while Rome burns, or rather, supporting poor overseas online sex workers (the executive's excuse).
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Thanks for that insight.
ReplyDelete400 City of Tucson employees on the chopping block might put those poor overseas sex workers out of business as well.
Bravo.