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Unsurprisingly, state bureaucracies oppose the computerisation of government records because they stand to lose from such openness.
ECONOMIST: When India wires up
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Filipinos are fervently hoping that the computerisation of the vote-counting in May's presidential, congressional and local elections will solve the problem.
ECONOMIST: Elections in the Philippines
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One possible pairing could be for the ID card to be linked to the computerisation of the NHS, acting as a smart medical card.
BBC: NEWS | Technology | Call for ID cards to get smart
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He identifies, especially, the more transparent and efficient delivery of food rations to the poor, thanks to computerisation and the spread of ID cards.
ECONOMIST: Politics
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In the wild, grooming is time-consuming and here computerisation certainly helps.
ECONOMIST: Even online, the neocortex is the limit
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Modern computerisation projects, in contrast, tend to have far more in common with Babbage's ill-fated attempt to build a mechanical computer, which cost a fortune and was eventually abandoned.
ECONOMIST: Millennium issue
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All of the measures he went on to outline are familiar ones - computerisation, more inspection, streamlined appointment and hospital admission systems, more investment on prevention of illness and cooperation between social services and health services.
BBC: NHS reform: Blair takes charge
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That kind of thinking has led to the botched computerisation in Britain's National Health Service, where billions of pounds and millions of precious hours are spent on a system that at best will be substandard and at worst dangerously leaky with patients' private medical data.
ECONOMIST: Technology and the public sector
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In its own unusual way, Vita Needle proves that by changing a little to accommodate an older workforce being more flexible about working hours, tolerating older people's technophobia (the fax machine has been accepted, but computerisation is still at least a year away) and, above all, stressing trust it is possible to gain a lot.
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