Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

A look at 21st century Digital Government shows that government is still decades behind.

Look at this ground-breaking document from our Federal government. It describes how to achieve 21st-century excellence in IT services for the citizen.

Okay, enough of the hyperbole. Let’s look at the document. It shows IT in three layers: information, platform, and presentation.

WOW! Where have I heard that before? How about the ISO seven-layer model from 1994? How about just about any description of object-oriented programming from the last three decades?

Groundbreaking government stuff. Decades behind schedule. I guess I should be impressed by something here, but …