Report from the UK's Institute for Government says "chronic short-termism is harming service performance in key public services" https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/public-services-doom-loop

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Short-term policy making has trapped public services in a ‘doom loop’

Chronic short-termism is harming service performance in key public services.

^{Stuart Hoddinott (Institute for Government)}

"if we don’t regroup as a civic tech community and reengage on meaningful procurement reforms, I’m pessimistic that we’ll make much progress on improving the quality of government digital services." https://civic.io/2023/05/16/requiem-for-procurement-reform/

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Requiem for Procurement Reform

Much of the work that is done to build, deliver, and support government digital services comes from private vendors. It’s naive to think that we’ll ever improve these services as much a…

^{Civic Innovations}