Anonymous

Surrey

Highly experienced developer and consultant.

I totally agree with The Naked CIO. The government has always been involved in intellectualising the development of IT in the mistaken belief that this assures both success and prosperity. And despite this, they manage to fail in development work as often as a poorly run development organisation.

What they fail to realise is that they may impose governance on this country, but once the development of any solution goes offshore, the very minimum of effort is attributed to governance which is why it is so much cheaper to develop offshore.

With increasing salaries in offshore communities the costs of developing are rapidly approaching our development costs so something has to give. The trouble is once we offshore and lost the ability to develop onshore we are at the mercy of every foreign development organisation.

The real problem is we are run by a load of incompetents who are only interested in two things - their personal publicity and a golden financial future. For the good of the people? Get real.