India shows no signs of stopping, or slowing, its digital diplomacy effort
Hey, if it's good, why not ?
We're going to be influenced by someone every day we get up. Might as well be by something that helps.
India's government has announced that the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to share India Stack, making it the latest territory to adopt the collection of digital public goods the world's most populous nation has created as a means to assist development of government digital …
"Hey, if it's good, why not ?"
Careful now! That's the kind of co-operative logic that gave us the Linux cancer. If it isn't nipped in the bud, we might one day have governments all running their public services with flexible, well supported, inter-operable, trusted packages.
Given that all governments have quite a lot of admin functions in common, it is shocking that they all seem to have the not-invented-here attitude. One could understand it if they were preferring to spaff money at their own industries, but most of them aren't even doing that.
The insanity is even more obvious at local government levels, where the services to be provided and the legal constraints are actually identical.