Getting to Outcomes
Jeffrey Sachs’ recent assessment of the systems overhaul needed for government to implement already agreed upon policies is spot on. Check it out at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-failing-of-us-government. Including such things as achieving water health + fish recovery under the Clean Water & Endangered Species Acts, the regulatory frameworks were built out by focusing on procedures rather than outcomes. While getting these procedures in place was key to slowing bad things from happening, these same pieces keep us from making good things happen at scale. For the first time, technology can stretch with across the fragmented system of multiple agencies that tries—largely with futility—to address an issue that cuts across them all. Water/aquatic habitat is a case in point: EPA, USDA, BLM, USFS, NOAA, USFWS, USACE, USBR, and their state corollaries all have an interest here, but despite best efforts, the issue is too vast, staff too small, and manual methods remaining in use cannot scale to the problem holistically. While coordination has made gains, it cannot keep pace.
We simply need systems that can bake in the required procedural criteria so we can focus on the outcomes: fixing the dead zone in the Gulf; recovering salmon in the Northwest; getting the Colorado to reach its mouth; or bringing the Chesapeake back within its limits. We can, but it looks very different than the way we’ve done things in the past (see StreamBank - How It Works). Because this administration uniquely understands technology, I am hopeful we can make the needed changes.
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