The Perils Of Government 'Scrapbooking'
Technology and consumer advocates planned a unique discussion on Capitol Hill on Monday morning to discuss how federal, state, and local governments use their own version of "scrapbooking" to preserve records. Most of the time, technologies on which they rely are expensive to maintain and could easily be upgraded. Those systems also lack safeguards needed to protect privacy and sensitive data.
Association for Competitive Technology President Jonathan Zuck; Citizens Against Government Waste President Tom Schatz; and Stephen Forte of Telerik were to discuss the real costs of continuing to use legacy systems, both short and long term; the risks of not dealing with the problem, or choosing to simply avoid it; and what governments can do, including a discussion of where interoperability, accessibility, and privacy intersect.
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