Because Everything Governmrent Touches Becomes Political, that’s why. While scientists burble excitedly about the internet of things, computer-brain interfaces that will enable the government to control us from data centres, creating human / computers hybrids and other science fantasy rubbish as if any of it stands a chance of becoming reality, government Information Technology managers, with almost unlimited resources at their disposal, can’t even manage to cobble together a simple database and search routine. The failure of the e borders project is the latest in a long line of screw ups.
Why Do Government Information Technology Projects always Screw Up?