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In this age of digital, a critical design point is the architecture of systems (socio-economic, technological, political). If everything can become digital (can be represented as a number) then the relation of that thing to other things becomes very abstract. We begin to think in terms of classes and instances, and how they could interact with other classes. And we risk losing track of the fact that we're thinking abstractly about things that affect real people in this real world. This blog is about the architecture of systems. And how architecture affects the real world.
        

Saturday, December 7, 2002

The Toughest Job In I.T.

Ben Standifer battles red tape, poverty, rickety equipment, heat, and flash floods to do his job
By Brian Gillooly, InformationWeek, Dec. 2, 2002
Imagine being in charge of IT for an entire nation, one in which four out of 10 families live below the poverty line and few make it far enough in school to qualify for IT jobs. Imagine dealing with a remote and rugged landscape that still denies many residents access to electricity, much less the Internet. And imagine doing your job on a slim budget while serving a region the size of Connecticut. Now heap on several layers of bureaucracy that turn the simplest tasks into odysseys. Welcome to the world of Ben Standifer, director of information and technology for the Tohono O'odham Nation, an American Indian reservation in south-central Arizona.

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