🚨 Information Gap Like a Century: Central Government Website Stagnant for Half a Year, Administrative Efficiency Becomes a Farce
💻 Dilemma in Finding Data: A Half-year Time Difference Between Central and Local
Today, for an important presentation, I needed to find the latest government data. I intuitively started from the official website of the national-level Executive Yuan, hoping to obtain the most authoritative and accurate information. However, during my careful comparison, I discovered a shocking and absurd phenomenon: the information provided on the Executive Yuan’s own website was exactly the same as last year’s descriptive documents, still being old information.
After deeper investigation, I found that these administrative measures had adjusted and changed at the local government level as early as last July.
In other words, judging from the content released on the official website of the central government, the error in information transmission compared to the actual execution status of the local government has reached more than half a year—and this is just the shortest estimate.
🐢 Administrative Efficiency of a “One-Eighth Term”
A delay of half a year might be downplayed as a “small matter” for a massive public institution. However, the administrative efficiency and information transmission failure reflected behind it are extremely poor and unacceptable.
We might as well measure the seriousness of this delay from another perspective: a president serves only a four-year term. If important information concerning public rights and administrative measures can be delayed for half a year, then this delay is equivalent to occupying one-eighth of a presidential term.
In modern society, information is power. The accuracy and timeliness of information directly affect the judgment of the public, the decision-making of enterprises, and the execution efficiency of local governments. The information gap between the central and local governments not only adds to the workload of the people and grassroots civil servants but also makes the entire national management system look like a low-efficiency farce.
❓ Who Can Still Have Expectations for the Public Sector?
This kind of administrative efficiency and dismissive attitude toward information updates inevitably makes people think deeply: who would truly expect the public sector to achieve something?
When the public sector itself, as the source of information, cannot ensure that the content it releases is real-time, accurate, and synchronous with the current situation, the foundation of people’s trust in the government will begin to shake. This passive inaction makes the people feel as if there is a huge gap in time and space between the central government and the real society.
At this time, it reminds me of a common slang:
“If the whole story were to be told clearly, the tears wouldn’t stop flowing.”
(Meaning: If the ins and outs of the matter were explained clearly, the tears would be unstoppable. It expresses helplessness and deep pain toward the current situation.) 迫