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Little known history's avatar

There is one question left unanswered by that list, why do so many Government IT projects go wrong ?

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Little known history's avatar

Ps great list of articles

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Fergus Merriman's avatar

Thanks Sam,

Near to TLDR!

The point really is that humans are the only beings on the planet that are restricted from building their own homes so rather than regulatory bodies causing such restriction we should abandon that avenue and have facilitatory bodies that assist best practice.

Remember the development bodies?

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Paul Maltby's avatar

Not impossible I've missed it in this big list, but I'd hope to see a section on digital/data reform to planning here. It always seems odd to me that there's such a gulf between planning 'policy' and 'delivery' folks about priorities to fix such a terrible system, even if there are many shared views on the fundamental challenges. So much of planning is about going through an administrative process, matching rules against data using software - but both those rules and the data needed to verify them are hard to use, find and trust, .and the way evidence is gathered is a throw back to a previous age and the software monopoly/oligopoly in the sector remains a barrier to reform. The lack of focus on these digital/data/process issues is imo an important part of the current failure of the overall system. And, being an optimist at heart, it is a *relatively* easier thing to fix than some other things on the list. Even the PM referenced it earlier this week in his AI/tech speech, and there's plenty of thinking and work in the open from the government & local gov teams and of course more views further afield. https://mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/category/digital-planning/

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Samir Varma's avatar

Great article! Thank you.

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