– BitDepth#1494 Mark Lyndersay Last week’s column was described by a reader as "uncharitable." Which is correct, in a strict reading of its intent. It offered no gifts and cut no slack. The national effort to effect tangible digital transformation is critically important and merits continuous evaluation. While blunt assessment has its place, so too does unsolicited advice. The plans of the Ministry of Digital Transformation (MDT) are neither misguided nor inappropriate, but its ambitions so robustly exceed our lived reality that a clearer effort to harness strategy to more clearly stated tactics is needed. Leadership Hassel Bacchus is the Digital Transformation Minister, but the government is led by the Prime Minister and, in some shadow role, the prime minister-in-waiting. Bacchus is guided by collective consensus, so if the goals of the government must be set by the PM and the PM-i-w, the compass there has not been clearly set to a digital future. To be fair, digital is a tough conceptual sell for politicians. Launches of things on screens aren’t terribly exciting and digital ribbon cuttings are inevitably a farce. Greater state efficiency is also the nemesis of political patronage. It demands a more refined skillset from public […]