On RNZ, we're hearing that NZ's health industry is suffering from really bad IT systems & technical debt. They're being called on to invest heavily. But they'll spend on all the wrong things. They *should* be defining an NZ-focused patient management system & other specialised systems & then *develop them once* for all of NZ as #FOSS, supportable by any NZ-based IT firms, not having *each practice* separately paying some US multinational through the nose for them. No brainer.
Both our Health Ministry and Education Ministries are totally out of their depths when it comes to IT systems. They need to temporarily second a group of *independent* NZ IT experts to help them make sound decisions. Listening to lobbyists and marketing is the *worst* thing they could do.
For the "2-3 *billion* dollars" they're talking about needing to invest, I can guarantee that NZ would have the *best* IT systems in the world if they used the approach I've described. They definitely won't, however, if they persist in throwing it all at the usual suspects (the "Frightful Five" and the multinational wannabes).
in the wake of Covid-19, we want to be *sharing* what we've learned globally for sure... but we also need to be developing technology self-sufficiency rather than international dependencies like using overseas clouds. In the past some might've scoffed, but with rule-of-law looking very precarious in the US & other places, as the world gets more desperate with climate change & related crises means we want to start hunkering down now.
I agree and the UK / EU GDPR law for data protection highlights this further.
Store overseas or out side of the EU the GDPR applies as I am a UK / EU citzen.
