Another mega-computer project from the Government of Canada – Canada.ca -. “Initiative to merge 1,500 federal websites into one is behind schedule and over budget”. This is so stupid I can barely bring myself to read about it. When will they learn? Unified theory, single system, one portal – no – the human mind is not capable of taking it all in – or at least the minds of people who take on these projects and commission them are not capable. Surely there is a simpler way to improve access to the information – index the sites, slap on a search engine, and add an overview as guide to the sites
Federal government’s Canada.ca project ‘off the rails’, CBC News, Dec 13
The Canada.ca initiative was launched in 2013 with the goal of making it easier for people to find and use government information online. A $1.54-million contract for a new content management system, where all government websites would be moved, was awarded to Adobe in 2015. …
The actual migration of the websites is up to the departments themselves and is to be done within existing budgets and staffing. Since 2015, eight of the largest departments have budgeted or spent more than $28 million on this project. …
According to the government, only 10,000 web pages have been moved to date. There are more than 17 million Government of Canada web pages in total.
