Re:Experimental UK Gov site: alpha.gov.uk
by meta on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @11:02AM
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Based off my personal experience over the last year dealing with 'Service' Canada and a bunch of splinter groups:
I think 'understand govt' is in the details of how it works. Government, at the bureaucracy level, is a large collection of paid workers. These groups of workers don't talk to each other, many don't give a damn so long as they don't get fired and most don't even understand their own rules and policies.
Each group has different procedures to accomplish a task and many of those procedures seem bizarre and obtuse when you try and navigate them to accomplish the task you are trying to actually do.
There is a huge difference between understanding the high level of how your government works and navigating the quagmire many of the departments have become.
I think 'understand govt' is in the details of how it works. Government, at the bureaucracy level, is a large collection of paid workers. These groups of workers don't talk to each other, many don't give a damn so long as they don't get fired and most don't even understand their own rules and policies.
Each group has different procedures to accomplish a task and many of those procedures seem bizarre and obtuse when you try and navigate them to accomplish the task you are trying to actually do.
There is a huge difference between understanding the high level of how your government works and navigating the quagmire many of the departments have become.