[ChuckNorris89]

>The German version is a clusterfuck ...

These gigantic government IT projects are also a good way to funnel taxpayer money to the right pockets, that's why they're always behind schedule and over budget (just like all government physical infrastructure projects) and if you look closely it's always the same 2-3 companies getting all the contracts.

[anoncake]

Bullshit. The German electronic ID card wasn't a huge project and it was developed in-house. By all accounts, it works pretty well if you actually have the opportunity to use it. The problem is that nobody supports it. In part because of federalism: You rarely interact with the federal bureaucracy directly and the states for some reason aren't interested in supporting it.

[rorykoehler]

In Singapore they have world class public IT infrastructure and they do it all in house.