Great discussion between Ryan Androsoff & Public Digital's Anna Hirschfeld & Alexandra MacEachern. I sadly missed #FWD50 this year, but it was great to hear about the work to bring the leadership behind #ARadicalHow to Canada.
thinkdigital.ca/podcast/the-ra…
The Radical How (with Anna Hirschfeld and Alex MacEachern)
Canada has fallen from 3rd in the 2010 UN e-gov rankings to 47 in 2024. We’re stuck when it comes to modernizing government for the digital era. But o...thinkdigital.ca
Mike Gifford, CPWA
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in reply to Ryan Androsoff • • •@RyanAndrosoff It wasn't much more than what I wrote on LinkedIn. It should be fleshed out more, but really...
Aside from different content, ArriveCan seemed like a much easier app to build.
It's a form that you need to fill out on a plane. That just can't be that difficult.
Lisa Fast
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in reply to Lisa Fast • • •@lisafast @RyanAndrosoff i don't know what the requirements actually were, but ArriveCan was ultimately a mobile app with local storage and some forms. So was the covid alert app, but it also needed to connect to two types of networks to detect and communicate. ArriveCan sure seems simpler.
ArriveCan chose not to build on an existing, tested, open siurce code base.
Mike Gifford, CPWA
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in reply to Lisa Fast • • •@lisafast @RyanAndrosoff no worries.
But ya, sometimes bureaucracy shoots itself in the foot from just starting in the wrong place.
But even the starting from an open source solution would have given them more flexibility.
If that kind of flexibility were actually needed, the developers could have spent their time developing for 3-4 different possible requirements , rather than rebuilding the wheel.