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Chitchat PM Lee's Son Li Hongyi Design Parking.sg App In Two Days But Need 6 Months To Persuade PAP Gahmen To Use It! Still Think Civil Servants Pro-PAP?

JohnTan

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李鸿毅(后排中)目前在政府科技局担任产品与工程团队副主管,曾负责领导研发出Parking.sg停车应用的年轻团队。(档案照)


李显龙总理的儿子李鸿毅上个月接受数码媒体Advisory访问,指设计Parking.sg应用遇到的最大困难不是设计产品本身,而是政府机构的繁文缛节。他透露,团队只花了两天就设计了应用原型,但说服政府机构却花了半年。

李鸿毅目前在政府科技局(GovTech)担任产品与工程团队副主管,并参与研发Parking.sg停车应用、政府数据网站data.gov.sg,以及有助生成政府电子表格的FormSG平台。他指刚加入政府机构时,一心想着研发优质的产品,而政府会采用这些产品,因为政府在寻找能创造产品的技术专才,但事实并非如此。

他说,即使研发了有用的产品,政府有时的决策却让这个产品无法推行,因此研发团队就得设法说服它们。

以Parking.sg应用为例,李鸿毅说:“设计这款应用的原型只花了两天……但要说服市区重建局和建屋发展局却花了至少半年。”

他透露,这两个机构其实多年前就已有过类似概念,但用的是手机短信,当时这个概念太昂贵,所以不愿尝试。

因此,李鸿毅和团队得证明他们的应用更有效率且更具成本效益,例如我国政府的一个服务器可能约5000元,但用来操作Parking.sg应用的设施仅有700元。“有趣的是,我们的运作如此便宜,它们还认为我们在胡编乱造。”

他也指出,他在科技局的职务包括应付政府机构与其繁文缛节。他说,政府必须为公共资金负责,因此在推出一个新产品前需要先经过多层批准。

“在一个普通的科技公司,完成一个新产品后就能推出,但(政府机构)却不是这样,不单得经过内部批准,还得花时间说服他人这个产品的好处。”

李总理日前在首届“彭博创新经济论坛”对话会上指出,他的子女当中没有人表示有意从政,他们都有自己的责任和事业,并相信他们会以自己的方式为国家做贡献。

完整报道,请翻阅2018年11月11日的《联合晚报》。

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/znews/singapore/story20181111-906657
 

a_korusawa

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well, our gahmen will not only charge you driving your car on their roads (we all know these).
they will also charge you parking your car on their lands (we all should know this by now).
yes! we all know that automobiles will be tracked via GPS satellites, hence the same technology will be applied to charge you as you move your wheels around.
soon, its not just CBD, ERP or on/off-peck hours...... in fact, every roads will be categorized for its utility payments model!

OK, so what's next? well, of coz gahmen will NOT let any opportunity slips since every vehicles are tracked.
hence, the same technology will also be applied to charge parking locations too!
but like any hawkers that knowingly all customers & hawkers will not surrender their details willingly to the gahmen via the banks to be taxed or charged
Hence "cashless" mode will be the best channel or conduits to their pockets !!!!

so, this will be the same for all car park apps or service providers too.
very soon, all these apps or services will be taken over by our gahmen once the business models are matured....
this means all these are just gimmicks as part of the 'conspiracy theory' instrumented to facilitate our gahmen pockets ultimately.

sigh, its indeed pay and pay......
 

eatshitndie

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anything done within 6.9 months is godspeed-sexpeditious in navigating gov protocol and going thru' the proper channel. considered reasonably short for the usual bureaucratic approval process. normally it requires 6.9 years.
 

kid a

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Ever thought about how it is yet another way to track Singaporeans. 6 months to get clearance is so the backend is foolproof in its tracking. Ask your friends in Digital, they'll tell you all his open-source codes that he is willing to share with the tech community have trackers in them. AND being on govtech, he is among the first line of defence should there be a wikileaks on his dad.
 

Kopi0Kosong

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Ever thought about how it is yet another way to track Singaporeans. 6 months to get clearance is so the backend is foolproof in its tracking. Ask your friends in Digital, they'll tell you all his open-source codes that he is willing to share with the tech community have trackers in them. AND being on govtech, he is among the first line of defence should there be a wikileaks on his dad.

Stage to Fit and Fix.
Six months consideration time frame is a staged performance.
A claim of two days to write and test-proof a world-class fully-functional and error-free APP is an insulting joke.
Are Singaporeans so stupid as not to know the Whats, the Whys and the Hows?
 

hofmann

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Ever thought about how it is yet another way to track Singaporeans. 6 months to get clearance is so the backend is foolproof in its tracking. Ask your friends in Digital, they'll tell you all his open-source codes that he is willing to share with the tech community have trackers in them. AND being on govtech, he is among the first line of defence should there be a wikileaks on his dad.

Coupons still exist for the paranoid. But if you overcome your fears (of being tracked) the app is truly a godsend in terms of convenience.
 

Kopi0Kosong

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Coupons still exist for the paranoid. But if you overcome your fears (of being tracked) the app is truly a godsend in terms of convenience.

Convenience, yes. Godsend, I think not. Other than hardware cost, how different is it from the cash card reader functionality unless the main consideration is international portability. However, it is of utmost value to one group of people.
 

halsey02

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Convenience, yes. Godsend, I think not. Other than hardware cost, how different is it from the cash card reader functionality unless the main consideration is international portability. However, it is of utmost value to one group of people.

You have already mentioned exceptional son of an exceptional father, who was an exceptional son of the grand father. Must showcase the exceptional genes due to exceptional mating.

Everything is exceptional. Even he was to develop an app that can get a robot to suck your....that is also exceptional. Only thing is there are already enough 'robots' sucking...the exceptional, since grand dad was arounr.

EXCEPTIONAL.
 

JohnTan

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This shows that the PAP is the best. Despite ruling Singapore for over 50 years, the PAP has ensured that the civil service, military and judiciary remain completely non-partisan. This is so unlike anywhere in the world. In chinkland, the civil service, military and judiciary take orders from the CCP. It's heartening to see that the civil service carry out their duties without fear nor favour. They will not implement any ideas if it is harebrained, even if it came from the Prime Minister's son.
 
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