Hello,
I would like to share some of my thoughts with you. I hope you won't mind, it's quite "Off-Topic" all right, and I'd like a chance to hear your feedback, or your ideas, and start a debate.
We're not in the dawn of the new age anymore, but have quite boldly stepped into it already. Still, politics aside, I see a way to improve the state of many countries, by improving bureaucracy.
I am a president of the singing choir, so I have to arrange some papers from time to time. We made some changes recently, and since we're registered in our municipality records in order to get some support from there, we had to report those changes there. After that those changes had to be reported to the bank. And again to the bank of the bank (or something like this, I don't even understand it).
Also, sometimes I have to write how much money I earned in this or that year, how much I payed, who am I, how long I study, what are my grades and so on. There is so much bureaucracy in our country, because there is so much paperwork to do. Once my wallet was stolen. There was so much paperwork to do that I still get the cold sweat running down my forehead just thinking about it.
In my opinion all paperwork is done in a very primitive way. We should have one central archive for ALL the matters of the individual, and files would have certain ownership as to who can access them: some parts by the government, some parts by the bank, some by university, some by you. There would be two more versions of the archive on the "Intranet" (so it would be off-line) which would be updated on a weekly basis, when all the changes would be double checked. Those two would serve as a back up, and only the Archivists (yes, I want it to sound epic/romantic) would have the right to modify those.
Members of the Archive would be elected committers and would have to be strictly neutral on the political matters, with no records of being a member of any political party whatsoever, because these would be really delicate matters, and the net effect would be virtually instituting another branch of power (so we would have 4 instead of the current three).
Many people who have to do paperwork and keep the different archives in sync could do something more useful, since there would be just one archive to keep track of.
I think that people in the position to make such decisions are too obtuse to do such a thing, since great political apparatuses seen ti thrive on useless bureaucracy and whatever the opposite of transparency is (blurriness/corruption?), and it makes me very annoyed when I am thinking of all the incompetence and inadequacy of modern bureaucracy.
What do you guys/girls think? Do you see one combined Archive as the future, or would it represent a (too great) security problem (as all things do)? Are you also annoyed by bureaucracy? Like for example the people at our town hall, who are only available for questions/paperwork from 8 to 11 in the morning.
I would like to share some of my thoughts with you. I hope you won't mind, it's quite "Off-Topic" all right, and I'd like a chance to hear your feedback, or your ideas, and start a debate.
We're not in the dawn of the new age anymore, but have quite boldly stepped into it already. Still, politics aside, I see a way to improve the state of many countries, by improving bureaucracy.
I am a president of the singing choir, so I have to arrange some papers from time to time. We made some changes recently, and since we're registered in our municipality records in order to get some support from there, we had to report those changes there. After that those changes had to be reported to the bank. And again to the bank of the bank (or something like this, I don't even understand it).
Also, sometimes I have to write how much money I earned in this or that year, how much I payed, who am I, how long I study, what are my grades and so on. There is so much bureaucracy in our country, because there is so much paperwork to do. Once my wallet was stolen. There was so much paperwork to do that I still get the cold sweat running down my forehead just thinking about it.
In my opinion all paperwork is done in a very primitive way. We should have one central archive for ALL the matters of the individual, and files would have certain ownership as to who can access them: some parts by the government, some parts by the bank, some by university, some by you. There would be two more versions of the archive on the "Intranet" (so it would be off-line) which would be updated on a weekly basis, when all the changes would be double checked. Those two would serve as a back up, and only the Archivists (yes, I want it to sound epic/romantic) would have the right to modify those.
Members of the Archive would be elected committers and would have to be strictly neutral on the political matters, with no records of being a member of any political party whatsoever, because these would be really delicate matters, and the net effect would be virtually instituting another branch of power (so we would have 4 instead of the current three).
Many people who have to do paperwork and keep the different archives in sync could do something more useful, since there would be just one archive to keep track of.
I think that people in the position to make such decisions are too obtuse to do such a thing, since great political apparatuses seen ti thrive on useless bureaucracy and whatever the opposite of transparency is (blurriness/corruption?), and it makes me very annoyed when I am thinking of all the incompetence and inadequacy of modern bureaucracy.
What do you guys/girls think? Do you see one combined Archive as the future, or would it represent a (too great) security problem (as all things do)? Are you also annoyed by bureaucracy? Like for example the people at our town hall, who are only available for questions/paperwork from 8 to 11 in the morning.
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