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Bookman: Virtually All 90,000 US Municipalities Use 30-Year-Old Software
“Virtually every state and local government, there's about 90,000 in the United States, is using software that's often 30 years old.”
Zach Buchman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:07 a16z Podcast | Government Transparency Powered by Software
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Bookman: Most US local governments are run by administrators, not elected mayors
“Most governments in the country, mind you the, as the mayor noted, are run by professional administrators. It's only the largest governments in the country where the senior elected official, like the mayor, is also the CEO.”
Zach Buchman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:24 a16z Podcast | Government Transparency Powered by Software
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