Pro-automation equals anti-corruption

(Continued from Aug. 14, 2018)

In reality, there is really no need to choose between manual methods and electronic methods, because as it is supposed to be, good paper records are supposed to be the starting point of good electronic records.

Notwithstanding the problems and limitations of these present times, what we should be looking at in the long term future are smarter government agencies and smarter local governments where everything is modernized, everything is computerized and everything is automated.

Setting aside the means of how that could be done, we should just say that the desired outcome is a government that is better and faster, a government that could be accessed all the time at anytime from anywhere, by anyone who needs anything from it, regardless of whether it is a report, a request or a complaint. It goes without saying that the means of access should be electronic or contactless as the saying goes.

What started out as the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) scheme of long ago has apparently evolved into what is now known as the Public and Private Partnership (PPP) approach.

As I understand it from my own perspective, one or the other would allow Joint Venture Projects (JVPs) of one form or the other. Perhaps no one is seeing it from the way that I see it, but JVPs could be an indirect form of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).

To clearly define what is what is not however, I should say outright that a JVP could simply be a lesser version of the Joint Venture Corporation (JVC) approach; where there is there is really no need to form a new corporation.

It is said that there are many ways to skin a cat, and on that basis I could confidently say that the BOT scheme, the PPP approach, JVPs and JVCs are simply ways to attract private capital in order to fund public projects.

Using an extreme example, it may already be possible to put up a JVP that will essentially privatize the construction and management of city jails and national prisons. In that example, the government could be spending less money per head per prisoner.

As long as performance targets are met, what is there to complain about? In all likelihood, the use of JVPs and JVCs could be the way to achieve automation and defeat corruption. (iseneres@yahoo.com/PN)

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