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by creesch 597 days ago
> It's interesting that the third-party consultants hired by the city to implement it aren't named in these articles

It certainly is, here in the Netherlands consultancy companies are often directly mentioned as a cause for a lot similar projects going over budget. Though the government really doesn't seem to be able to do much about it or simply doesn't care. As most recently they appointed the ex vice-president of one of those companies as a state secretary of Digitalisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsolt_Szab%C3%B3_(Dutch_politi...