Thursday, April 27, 2006

Who's the most Kafka-esque of them all?

The French goverment has created a Kafka Index to measure the number of hurdles to be crossed by a citizen / organization to obtain something from the Goverment (say a permit or financial aid, etc).

The index will range from 1 to 100 and the 'score' of the various ministries will be posted on a Government website. The article doesn't go into just how the score will be calculated, whether actual citizens will be involved in the scoring, etc, etc.

Since government procedures to do anything tend to be so arcane and downright incomprehensible at times, my geeky tangential idea is to have an equivalent of the SoYouWanna website for each Government branch that the public needs to deal with. So the RTO (Indian equivalent of the DMV) will have entries like - So you wanna get a learner's permit? So you wanna sell your old car?

Now if they did the same thing in India, what is the likelihood that we'll be totally off the charts?

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