I think it's too complicated to blame anyone really. I mean, we working on standardising as much as possible, but it's often impossible because business practices are just so different. Often big standard products fall extremely short, or end up in complete failures because you can't jam people into boxes on an enterprise scale especially not when the people who build the systems have next to no domain knowledge and the people who write contracts have no technical knowledge. :)
I guess our government should work on writing laws that are more friendly to digitisation and stop expecting IT to fix business practices that don't really make sense in the first place. There has been a genuine movement toward that, but it's slow because none of our top politicians or bureaucrats are from technical fields, and they operate on such a high strategic level that they're often rather far from the daily challenges in a daycare institution.
Local political leadership and bureaucracy could certainly do more to focus on corporation, standardisation and digital transformation, and they actually do, but political views differ and they change every 4 years, and the truth is that there just isn't any voter interest in IT unless it goes wrong.
We're trying to build national standards, we've had a set of architectural standards called Rammearkitekturen for a few yers now, but getting them implemented is slow. For one they're made by muniplicities and our structure of government is split in three. Muniplicities, Counties and the State and each branch has it's own ideas, leading to bureaucracy and political differences. Some want us to use EU standards, others want us to build our own, and even if we decided, there are different sets of EU standards as well as different sets of Danish standards.
I personally think the best we can do is try to use whatever national standards are in favour, and build smaller applications on them, with open API's, and run everything as SaaS in infrastructures such as AWS or Azure. I also think we should do a lot more work on business development, modifying business practices before we throw IT at something.
But it's complicated and it's on a giant scale where even minor changes take years to implement
I guess our government should work on writing laws that are more friendly to digitisation and stop expecting IT to fix business practices that don't really make sense in the first place. There has been a genuine movement toward that, but it's slow because none of our top politicians or bureaucrats are from technical fields, and they operate on such a high strategic level that they're often rather far from the daily challenges in a daycare institution.
Local political leadership and bureaucracy could certainly do more to focus on corporation, standardisation and digital transformation, and they actually do, but political views differ and they change every 4 years, and the truth is that there just isn't any voter interest in IT unless it goes wrong.
We're trying to build national standards, we've had a set of architectural standards called Rammearkitekturen for a few yers now, but getting them implemented is slow. For one they're made by muniplicities and our structure of government is split in three. Muniplicities, Counties and the State and each branch has it's own ideas, leading to bureaucracy and political differences. Some want us to use EU standards, others want us to build our own, and even if we decided, there are different sets of EU standards as well as different sets of Danish standards.
I personally think the best we can do is try to use whatever national standards are in favour, and build smaller applications on them, with open API's, and run everything as SaaS in infrastructures such as AWS or Azure. I also think we should do a lot more work on business development, modifying business practices before we throw IT at something.
But it's complicated and it's on a giant scale where even minor changes take years to implement