From Chicago residents being unable to easily use city websites on smartphones to a confusing system that makes it difficult for home and business owners to challenge high water bills, an outside consultant said the city’s menu of websites are not serving Chicagoans well. A multiyear push to overhaul the city’s IT infrastructure that stalled during the COVID-19 pandemic could see new life, as about $350 million for such upgrades remains untapped from a previous capital bonds.
Are sure they are talking about IT or are they talking about government “Workers”?
marko
2 years ago
I have to deal with city hall quite a bit and have been for 30+ years and in that time I’ve watched countless IT initiatives, programs, overhauls, upgrades, roll outs, etc, etc, etc, and nothing works any faster, more efficient or better than in 1987. The only saving grace is less trips to city hall. I can’t imagine how many millions were pissed away on worthless IT initiatives. At this point just outsource the entire bureaucratic infrastructure to Oracle or whomever the lowest bidder is and fire all the human pension parasites, replace with AI and then watch as the… Read more »
Goodgulf Greyteeth
2 years ago
Jeez – exactly what happens when people don’t pay attention to what guvmn’t is doing.
Old Joe
2 years ago
Hmm, why doesn’t the wireless tax get lost in this mess?
Giddyap
2 years ago
probably cuz lazy loafer city workers are downloading porn and doing fraud schemes on their computers all day
Are sure they are talking about IT or are they talking about government “Workers”?
I have to deal with city hall quite a bit and have been for 30+ years and in that time I’ve watched countless IT initiatives, programs, overhauls, upgrades, roll outs, etc, etc, etc, and nothing works any faster, more efficient or better than in 1987. The only saving grace is less trips to city hall. I can’t imagine how many millions were pissed away on worthless IT initiatives. At this point just outsource the entire bureaucratic infrastructure to Oracle or whomever the lowest bidder is and fire all the human pension parasites, replace with AI and then watch as the… Read more »
Jeez – exactly what happens when people don’t pay attention to what guvmn’t is doing.
Hmm, why doesn’t the wireless tax get lost in this mess?
probably cuz lazy loafer city workers are downloading porn and doing fraud schemes on their computers all day