Online business - romanian state version
While the private sphere faces true challenges doing true work and providing true value (you get the picture) some state funded online businesses just give me the creeps. If you are happy to live in country where small transparent government “for the people” has real meaning no point reading further. Personally I doubt that you are as all countries have similar problems albeit some to a lesser extent. Try find one or two issues like this in you local system instead of just being dismissive about it.
The first pick for my asshole list is:
They are selling detailed company statistics collected at the taxpayers expense. First there is the paycheck of bureaucrat to “digitize” data, then there is the waisted time by company owner having to report on an arcane interface. Anyway given that law requires the company to report this data, and that taxpayers fund the collecting feels awfully strange to charge for it.
Second pick goes to:
Selling meteorological data series – yearly average temperature, yearly average wind speeds, yearly sunshine hours etc. All important data when you need to size your home heating equipment, determine economically viable insulation levels, window to wall ratios and other non-construction related uses. Again they have collected this data from taxpayer funding, so why not put them up on their site for all to see. Clearly there is no hosting issues here since these (yearly averages) barely would consume more data than some of the images they have on their homepage?
I give an especially large malus point for failing to share the price of these “products” instead you have phone them in to make an inquiry. So much for transparency.
(...) I could continue this further but in the spirit of keeping the end-of-year mood up and happy I’ll just stop now.
UPDATE: You can find meteorological series with excellent depth from NASA covering the entire globe, freely.
