Limited accountability of public services

A UK computer journalist has reported on the way Government and corporate bureaucrats repeatedly waste taxpayers' money by repeating the same basic mistakes with computer systems, and how there is then no proper auditing system to ensure that lessons are learned and mistakes not repeated. He analyses examples such as the UK National Health Service, which spent £500 million on computers to reduce staff costs, coinciding with a 40% increase in the number of administrators. In every case examined, the same pattern emerges: the hiring of expensive consultants to design a complex, over-ambitious, one-off system, which fails to allow for the requirements and capacities of its users; overtight schedules; an almost psychotic reluctance to admit that things have gone wrong. Then finally, when the system crashes, no one is found to be accountable, and no one is concerned to learn why it went wrong.

1. It is the lack of accountability and the resultant profusion of corruption, bloated bureaucracies, under-performing parasites and abuse of power that has become a common denominator among developing countries, from single party left-wing regimes to conservative autocracies.

1. Social unaccountability
2. Inaccessible administrative agencies
3. Deep state

1. Unaccountable management of public information
2. Bureaucratic errors
3. Abuse of monopoly power of state-owned or state-controlled enterprises

1. Unethical practices of government
2. Unethical practices in the public sector
3. Underdeveloped provision of household services
4. Unaccountability of international financial institutions
5. Mismanagement
6. Lack of social conscience
7. Lack of information
8. Insufficient street lighting
9. Incomplete understanding of new societal service systems
10. Inadequate weed control
11. Inadequate waste treatment
12. Inadequate system of political checks and balances
13. Inadequate maintenance of infrastructure
14. Inadequate maintenance
15. Inadequate illegal drug seizures
16. Inadequate domestic refuse disposal
17. Dysfunctional public utilities
18. Decline in government expenditure

1. Unavailability of local directories
2. Unavailability of library facilities
3. Bureaucratic superiority

1. Privatization of public services

1. Public non-accountability in control of production processes

1. Reforming institutions
2. Reducing government secrecy
3. Limiting accountability of public services
4. Increasing accountability of public services
5. Holding government accountable

1. Limitedness
2. Inadequacy
3. Inhibition
4. Obscurity