Indeed governments often asks for programs that are easy enough to create in a hackathon. The difficulty is integrating them with their current hardware and software setup. What I can do with Javascript or Python in a few days, might be a month in an enterprise Java setup where I need to run as a module on top of their existing application. Needing to integrate with existing SOAP based services etc, it might be even longer. So I'm pretty sure this story hasn't finished yet.