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January 27, 2005
Census
France is now taking a census each year. The form says we're legally required to respond, so I did.
What's interesting to somebody currently working in Identity Management software is that they already have all the answers we wrote down on the forms.
By that I mean every bit of information collected as part of the census has already been sent in on one official form or another, often multiple times. But the state does not have an operational system for sharing that data among its different constituant parts. I wonder if it would be more work to deploy a system capable of managing identities to that extent than to send the forms every year and update a separate census database manually.
Posted by Mark at January 27, 2005 09:41 PM