By 2023, according to the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic\nReform (KemenPANRB), at least 27,400 applications had been built.<\/p>\n
The sheer number of applications has created various potential\nproblems, from duplicated functions and unintegrated services to\nfragmented data. The government has introduced the Electronic-Based\nGovernment System (SPBE) policy to address the tangle of issues\ninvolving these applications.<\/p>\n
However, there is also a paradigm-level issue that needs diagnosing:\nhow the bureaucracy views problems and determines the solutions to\nresolve them.<\/p>\n
This way of thinking is reflected, for example, when periodic\nreporting prompts the creation of a digital reporting system, or when an\nagency seeks data on people with disabilities in a particular area and\ngoes to considerable effort to build a dashboard.<\/p>\n
Consider a central government agency that develops a system to\nestablish the number of schools or community health centres in an area,\ndown to village level. In principle, data on educational and health\nfacilities form part of the sectoral data managed by the relevant\nministries or agencies.<\/p>\n
The question, then, is whether, before building a new system, the\nagency has identified available data sources, checked whether their\ndefinitions and coverage are suitable, and begun discussions with the\ndata-producing agency about sharing and reusing the data.<\/p>\n
In practice, digitalisation has yet to achieve optimal integration of\neither government services or data. Individual agencies can readily\ncreate applications, while fragmentation continues across the system.\nData, however, are essential to developing evidence-based policy.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/one-human-rights-data-system-when-technology-is-not-the-goal-1792932691", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }