(Bernard est notre voisin d'en bas, mais avant tout un ami et aussi membre de l'église. Ici lors du dimanche de rêve, Kalia a profité de jouer avec Joyce, sa petite fille).
Le sujet de cet article m'est venu en écoutant les déboires du système Edwige - un truc informatique pour ficher tous les criminels potentiels, stocker et mettre ensemble un paquet d'informations qui sont actuellement disparates ou inexistants.
Evidemment, c'est un rêve de rationalisation. Actuellement les flics doivent passer des heures à chercher des informations à divers endroits, sûrement avec des demandes administratives en sus. L'informatique peut résoudre tout ça, ce serait tellement simple. Ensuite c'est juste clic clic clic.
Le problème c'est que les gouvernements et les grosses organisations en générale n'ont pas vraiment un très bon palmarès au niveau de la protection des données. Sans parler des dépassements de délai, de coûts, et les trucs qui ne marche tout simplement pas.
Alors moi, je préfère l'inefficacité.
Dans le même registre, on se plaint souvent en Suisse de la duplication des services entre cantons, et même entre communes.
Là aussi je préfère l'inefficacité à la concentration de pouvoir.
(Bernard is our downstairs neighbour, but also a friend and member of the same church. Here's a photo Kalia messing around with Joyce, his granddaughter, on dream Sunday.)
I got to thinking about this listening to the French news in the car. The goverment there is trying to push through a system (Edwige) which will be some massive 'potential criminal' database, streamlining the police's work, bringing together lots of information that is currently held in different places, or not held at all.
Obviously, it's touted as a great gain in efficiency. At the moment, the police spend hours and hours seeking out information all over the place, probably jumping through administrative hoops to get to some of it. Just the kind of thing that an IT database would be good and simplifying and centralising. After that, it's all available at the click of a mouse.
The problem is that goverments, and large organisations in general, don't have a wonderful track record when it comes to data protection. Not to mention cost and delivery overruns, or projects that are just shelved because they will never work.
So I prefer inefficiency.
People often complain here in Switzerland about inefficiencies because the cantons (and even the communes) have the same structures running in parallel.
But I think that is probably preferable to concentrating too much power in too few hands.
I got to thinking about this listening to the French news in the car. The goverment there is trying to push through a system (Edwige) which will be some massive 'potential criminal' database, streamlining the police's work, bringing together lots of information that is currently held in different places, or not held at all.
Obviously, it's touted as a great gain in efficiency. At the moment, the police spend hours and hours seeking out information all over the place, probably jumping through administrative hoops to get to some of it. Just the kind of thing that an IT database would be good and simplifying and centralising. After that, it's all available at the click of a mouse.
The problem is that goverments, and large organisations in general, don't have a wonderful track record when it comes to data protection. Not to mention cost and delivery overruns, or projects that are just shelved because they will never work.
So I prefer inefficiency.
People often complain here in Switzerland about inefficiencies because the cantons (and even the communes) have the same structures running in parallel.
But I think that is probably preferable to concentrating too much power in too few hands.
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