This is one good piece of news over this weekend. It has been too long for the advancement of technology in the whole of government. 

My take for this is the bureaucracy and political infighting. Everyone is trying to secure their iron rice bowl. There are many high fliers brought into the civil service due to academic results and maybe connections, deep down are these so call civil servant really working towards nation building and the betterment of society.. 

Its very much like the old shanghai, where people with power gang up together helping their own kind and not ordinary people on the road.

There were many attempts to push through changes only to be met with resistance when it hit the ground.

There are other challenges.. Technology is moving so fast that there is no clear standard or model to follow… the traditional way of procurement may not work now as we need to make bet on trends and emerging technology/standards.

No global standard that can adhere to. 

Procurement process

Merged NETS and Cashcard and bring them under government control.