View and Build Government Organization like a Software
Background Recently I read several books on software architecture. I also read some books about politics and government such as The Logic of Governance in China (Zhou, Xueguang) and America against America (Wang, Huning). I feel software and government do have many similarities. For example, both of them are created to execute tasks based on some stable business logic, to satisfy human needs, to serve a large user base, have a topological structure etc. Software system is more like a simplified version of government organizations. In science, a theory is usually created by studying some simple model with a lot of assumptions and then applied to a more complicated context. I’m thinking maybe we can do the same thing from software architecture to government organization. The goal of this article is to inspire people on different ways of building government organizations based on software development principles and test them in practice. This is more of a collection of my own thoug