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#  Government That Acts in Time 

 





December 05, 2018

 

 

- December 5, 2018
- [A New City O/S](/new-city-os)

 *This is part of a series of features to highlight key lessons from [A New City O/S](https://anewcityos.org) by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman.*



 

 Key Insights

- Government has long been construed as a highly routinized organization, slow to evolve with shifting conditions. A new digital O/S is agile and responds quickly with rapid-cycle processes that produce dramatic benefits.
- Few areas demonstrate the need to “act in time” as much as regulation. Currently, permits, licenses, and inspections are handled with check-the-box protocols and rely on systems that ultimately cost citizens both money and time.
- Regulation is essentially about assessing risk, and old systems are inefficient at discerning different risks. Using new technology and a distributed approach allows government to identify risk more accurately and quickly, thus improving health outcomes for citizens.
- The new O/S calls for a pivot from uniform approaches to a system of data analytic tools that can identify problems, potentially concurrent work on requests, automating data sources, and support for frontline workers making the decisions.

 Quick Tips

- Cities should apply a metric of elapsed time spent and factor this into productivity reports.
- A new system called Reg✓, based on TSA PreCheck, should be instituted to evaluate permit seekers such that official reviewers can fast track those with good histories and less complex requests.
- Various opportunities present a way to hybridize existing regulations with reputation-based sharing economy information sources.

 Potential Problems

- Regulatory processes require periodic review, especially those captive to strong interest groups that create barriers to entry.
- Regulations that are too high or too onerous will foster noncompliance.

 *Please visit [https://anewcityos.org ](https://anewcityos.org)for more.*



 

 

 

 By Data-Smart City Solutions • December 5, 2018



 

 



 

 See also:- [ A New City O/S ](/topics/new-city-os)
- [ Regulation ](/topics/regulation)
 
 

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