Spain is the thirteenth largest economy in the world in terms of GDP and the seventeenth in terms of purchasing power parity. It is a highly evolved country, with smart infrastructure, high literacy rates and a smart school system, and one of the most universal public and fitness facilities in the world. And yet we are failing in spaces that would dishonor our neighbors: how We explain the huge gap between the number of other people inflamed with Covid-19 and those who have died? Why is so complicated? that the government count a user who has a positive diagnostic test, is admitted to the hospital, goes to an extensive care unit or dies? How can you imagine that whole days go by without reporting knowledge to foreign analysts and observers, which raises doubts? on the veracity of what the government says, which led some researchers to look for multiple signals and resources to corroborate the knowledge?
Here are a few more questions: Why did it take so long to deploy a national tracking app?And how is it imaginable that in late August and with the return school pass and paintings on us, the app will only be used in a few spaces in this country, so it will fit almost dead if I take into consideration the giant number of others?people who spend there on vacation or who come back on vacation?
With regard to the return to school, how is it conimaginable that the regions of Spain each have its own policy, some of the others, none considering that the transmission of the virus in confined spaces is much greater than the first of All Estimated, or that vector children are much more active than previously thought?
Spain’s inability to propose a coherent and coordinated technique for the control of COVID-19 (as well as many other problems) is due in large part to its department in the so-called autonomous regions, which have significant decentralized power. In spaces such as fitness or schooling, they are done at the regional level. Over the years, millions of euros have been wasted to create no less than 17 separate fitness systems, each of them outsourced to corporations that each of the regions deems appropriate, without unified progression criteria and with an almost negative to communicate with each other, as I mentioned a few years ago as a result of a non-public episode with the prescription of a drug in some other autonomous network that ended up being discussed in the Spanish Congress (video in Spanish), but noted in the courtesy of a pandemic, the deficiencies are strongly high.
I am not opposed to the Spanish regions reaching a safe point of autonomy, it is enshrined in the Constitution, it has been approved by a majority and, as a general principle, possibly even has its advantages: in many ways, the most productive control is the closer to the ground. The German states have an even higher point of political autonomy than the Spanish autonomous communities, and the counterattack sometimes responds well to this pandemic. But the Spanish formula for regional autonomy has led to duplication, bureaucracy and corruption, and above all, a lack of real-time coordination and data sharing that has made us much more vulnerable to a global threat. Until we realize this and seek to resolve this express problem, we will continue to ridicule ourselves abroad. period, considered “delayed viruses”, and suffer the avoidable facets of the pandemic.
Information systems – or in this case, their absence – are much more vital than previously thought. In an era of global threats, countries that cannot coordinate action at the national level will be the losers.
Professor of innovation at EI Business School since 1990, and now, school of piracy as senior for virtual transformation at IE University. BSc (University of
Professor of innovation at the EI Business School since 1990, and now, school of piracy as senior for virtual transformation at IE University BSc (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), MBA (Instituto de Empresa) and Ph. D. Management Information Systems (UCLA) ).