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Григорий Клюшников

sam henri gold, blows my mind that you don't have an equivalent to our gosuslugi.ru. It's a centralized portal where you get all government services. But I'm not sure this is possible in the US where each state has much more autonomy.

16 July at 14:17 | Wall-to-wall
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Erik Uden 🍑

@grishka @samhenrigold why do both Ukraine and Russia have this meanwhile Germany is like “fill out these 14 forms, go to these 5 offices (who all have the same name and do the same thing), Notary etc. and then maybe you have a company in 6 months.

I mean, founding a company is one thing, but social services?? Local government appointments?? Yeah, I am glad some countries put their IT money in things other than Windows 7 licenses

17 July at 9:31 | Open on mastodon.de
Григорий Клюшников

Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied:, actually Russia is a bit of both. To get a passport (the international kind) you first submit a form on that website, but then they invite you for the in-person part to take your picture and fingerprints and stuff and you have to come there 2 hours before they open to have any chance of getting it done. And they're open like 3 hours a day, different ones on different days of week. Eventually you receive an email that your passport is ready and you do it again to collect it. Some countries would just send you your documents in the mail. I envy them.

Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied:, actually Russia is a bit of both. To get a passport (the international kind) you first submit a form on that website, but then they invite you for the in-person part to take your picture and fingerprints and stuff and you have to come there 2 hours before they open to have any chance of getting it done. And they're open like 3 hours a day, different ones on different days of week. Eventually you receive an email that your passport is ready and you do it again to collect...

17 July at 11:44
sam henri gold

@grishka The GSA (part of the executive branch) has 18F (an in-house studio that works with other government agencies) as well as the U.S. Digital Service which governs some tech stuff (like the USWDS technologyreview.com/2024/06/2). But it’s all optional and most people who work at gov’t agencies suck at web design, so they use whatever fuckass Microsoft Frontpage template they feel like instead.

17 July at 12:01 | Open on hachyderm.io
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