IDG Contributor Network: For tech's sake! Another government tech plan?

“Just dig a hole in the ground and throw money in it” was a piece of advice my wife recently received on buying a swimming pool. I was reminded of that when I read something on LinkedIn last week about “the best county technology plan ever.” The plan is public, so I decided to investigate and read it for myself.

I am immediately skeptical when I see a document called a Technology Plan. The public sector isn’t suffering from a lack of technology; its root problems are a lack of governance, management accountability and measurable business goals. Technology has become a proxy for bad managers. “If we only had more money and more tech, we could do a decent job.”

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