The president is committed to a paperless government
Claudia Sheinbaum declares war on paperwork. The president proposed erasing traditional jobs within the public administration at a stroke. The goal? Digitize everything so that the processes do not seem taken from the last century.
“That makes the processes within the government very bureaucratic,” he said, while describing how even to resolve disputes between areas they ended up reviewing mountains of documents.
Behind the digital curtain
The move has a name: Digital Transformation Agency. A team of about 300 young people, many using free software, is designing the tools to make everything flow online. Sheinbaum promises that it will not only save paper, but money and trees.
“Let everything be digital, let all communications be digital and in a very simple way,” he stated with the tone of someone who has already seen the future.
The million-dollar question: will this time be different from so many promises of modernization that were left in the drawer? Because in this country, each six-year term discovers the digital wheel and then… well, we already know. But be careful: if they manage to leave a real precedent for future administrations, perhaps it will not be just bureaucratic smoke.
