The ombudsman, as it stands, is a shark without teeth. It cannot even smell a scandal if it was bleeding before their eyes — can’t sense, can’t bite, can’t act, can’t fix. It’s a watchdog with no jaws. So let’s give it an upgrade or even better give the government such an upgrade that Ombudsman loses the necessity for their entire existence.
This isn’t some grand ideological revolution. It’s just a silly idea for a public ticket system. Silly, but powerful.
Imagine a civic ticket system — not buried in obscure forms, not locked in back-office email chains. Just like an internal help-desk, but for governance. Public, structured, traceable. And smart.
This is what it looks like.
Core Idea
Citizens should be able to report issues publicly — not buried in anonymous inboxes, not hidden behind “ongoing investigation” seals. People already talk about public issues. If people can talk about public issues with their friends, why can’t they track them together too?
A government ticket system could work just like internal systems in IT or customer service — but with a civic twist.
This is not a place for endless debate. It’s a structure to frame problem → proposal → response, cleanly and traceable.
This system proposes a transparent, iterative problem-solving interface where AI is used not to obscure, but to clarify.
The System: Public, AI-Structured, and Transparent
The system is made up of 4 stages — and yes, it uses AI — but only as a tool to help people sharpen what they’re already saying.
Every issue goes through this cycle:
1. Problem Description
a) Citizens submit an issue.
b) The AI cleans up the language, consolidates overlapping inputs, and upgrades the coherence of the report.
c) A public change-log shows the input that evolved the description — all steps visible, all input attributable.
2. Proposed Solution
a) Based on the refined problem description, the AI drafts a solution or possible action path.
b) This is visible to the public as a formal response — no magic, just structured reasoning.
c) This is not a decision. It’s a draft — structured logic, not authority. Only advice.
3. Critique Layer
a) Citizens respond to the proposed solution — a structured challenge to the proposal..
b) Their remarks are also structured by AI — not censored, but upgraded for clarity and grouped by theme or angle.
c) Again, change-logs and input trails are visible. No anonymous edits. No hidden manipulations.
d) in a sense this is the same as step 1 (problem description)
4. Upgraded Solution
a) The AI integrates valid critiques and proposes a refined version of the solution.
b) This is the “feedback-reinforced” stage, where the system attempts synthesis, not endless argument loops.
All stages remain visible — including abandoned tickets, failed resolutions, and ongoing ones. This creates a living public record of issues and proposed governance responses.
This is the synthesis. 1 = 2 + 3 = 4.
Why This Matters
Business Model? Sure — But Keep It Public
Yes, this is a product. But no, it shouldn’t be commercialized. This is civic infrastructure. It belongs to the commons.
It could be sold to municipalities, NGOs, or transparency coalitions — but that defeats the purpose.
Build it, release it, and let it run at zero cost. The public has already paid for enough systems that don’t work. This one should.
The value lies not in monetization — but in legitimacy.
Expanded Use: From Complaint Board to Administrative Operating System
What starts as a feedback tool can evolve into a complete civic engine. The system can scale:
Each issue flows like a case file, but it’s public-facing and structurally transparent. Departments can adopt the system internally. Citizens and officials see the same state of the case. Updates are traceable.
With enough refinement, this system could even approach pre-judicial arbitration or replace lower-level administrative courts — especially for predictable, repeatable types of disputes (benefits, housing, permit denials, etc.).
At some point a judge and lawyer can then bend over the case after it went through these 3 steps.
Design Philosophy
Potential Impact:
If deployed at scale, this would:
Final Thought
Let’s stop treating public concern like noise.
Let’s give it a ticket.
Let’s give the ombudsman jaws.
Give people a way to speak clearly. Let the problems stay visible. Let the fixes be criticized. Let the system evolve in full view.
Democracy doesn’t die in darkness — it suffocates in forms. We’ve normalized arbitrary bureaucracy and opaque complaint systems. But the technology to upgrade them exists. All we’re missing is the will — and the will can be crowd-sourced.
Written by Artorius Magnus
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Bijna iedere passant ziet een brug op deze plek niet zitten. De Schinkel is hier op zijn allerbreedst, en allermooist.
En de Schinkeleilanden pronken met hun mooie landschappelijke vormgeving. Laat een beetje groene visie indalen in de ziel van onze projectbeslissers. Een beetje verderop is een prima plek om zonder al die schade een mooie functionele brug te bouwen die bovendien veel korter is en daardoor veel goedkoper. Ook hoeven er geen woonarken te verdwijnen. Iedere stem telt want dit najaar wordt het ernst.
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NOS NIEUWS • BINNENLAND • 13-04-2012, 21:59 • AANGEPAST 13-04-2012, 22:17 Griepvaccins vernietigd door fout Door een fout van een magazijnmedewerker van het Nederlands Vaccin Instituut zijn 1,2 miljoen vaccins tegen de Mexicaanse griep onbruikbaar geworden.
De magazijncoördinator kreeg de opdracht om alleen de 1,7 miljoen vaccins te vernietigen die over datum waren. Maar in plaats daarvan zette hij volgens het RIVM alle vaccins buiten de koeling, ook die nog goed waren, waardoor die ook bedierven. De fout werd gemaakt in 2010, toen de vaccinatiecampagne tegen de Mexicaanse griep H1N1 al voorbij was.
"De doelgroepen in Nederland die voor vaccinatie in aanmerking kwamen, waren toen al ingeënt en er was nog een ruime voorraad. De vaccinatie is dan ook op geen enkel moment in gevaar geweest", zegt het RIVM.
De medewerker werd vijf dagen geschorst zonder behoud van salaris.
Farmaceut Moderna brengt miljardenwinst en patenten onder in belastingparadijzen De Amerikaanse farmaceut Moderna heeft een fiscale structuur opgezet om de miljarden die het ontvangt voor zijn coronavaccin onder te brengen in belastingparadijs Zwitserland. De patenten op het vaccin, dat met hulp van universiteiten en overheidssubsidie is ontwikkeld, zijn ondergebracht in een ander belastingparadijs: de Amerikaanse staat Delaware. Op deze manier betaalt het bedrijf een heel laag tarief aan vennootschapsbelasting en zijn de bedragen die Moderna in Amerika aan royalty's ontvangt van dochterbedrijven onbelast.
Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen (SOMO).
De Europese Unie bestelde tot nu toe ruim 460 miljoen vaccins bij Moderna en is daarmee, na de Verenigde Staten, de grootste afnemer. Per dosis betaalt de EU 22,50 dollar (19 euro), wat neerkomt op een totaalbedrag van 10,35 miljard dollar (8,75 miljard euro). Al eerder bleek dat het vaccin van Moderna de duurste is van de goedgekeurde coronavaccins. Dat werd duidelijk toen de Belgische staatssecretaris voor Begroting en Consumentenbescherming de inkoopprijzen van de verschillende vaccins per ongeluk op Twitter zette.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/farmaceut-moderna-brengt-miljardenwinst-en-patenten-onder-in-belastingparadijzen
Op 24 augustus plaatste gemeente Wageningen het volgende bericht op hun facebookpagina.
"Beste Hondenbezitters, Afgelopen weken hebben wij gezien dat het nieuwbericht omtrent de Blauwe Bergen veel teweeg heeft gebracht.
Wij gaan onderzoeken of het beleid ten aanzien van de Blauwe Bergen aangepast kan worden. Zodra er meer over bekend is, dan informeren wij jullie daarover. Tot die tijd wordt er in ieder geval niet gehandhaafd op loslopende honden. ^KB "
Dit is een natuurlijk een zeer positief bericht waar we blij mee zijn.
Ons doel blijft om van park De Blauwe Bergen blijvend een hondenlosloopgebied te maken met opruimplicht.
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AFRICA NEEDS more covid-19 vaccines. The continent depends on jabs from abroad, but has received just 103m doses for a population of almost 1.4bn.
There is another obstacle to the rollout, however: not all the doses are being used. In April the Democratic Republic of Congo returned 1.3m shots donated by COVAX, the global jab-sharing scheme. In May Malawi burned nearly 20,000 doses. At least seven other African countries have destroyed some 450,000 doses in all. When just 3.8% of sub-Saharan Africans aged 12 or over have received their first dose of covid-19 vaccine, compared with over 50% worldwide, why are vaccines going to waste?
Many of the jabs destroyed or returned have been out-of-date or due to expire before they could be administered. In Congo's case, the country struggled to restart its vaccine drive quickly enough after pausing it because of concerns over blood clotting. But bad donations are part of the problem, too. Most covid-19 vaccines have a relatively short shelf-life compared with other jabs: their novelty makes it difficult to estimate how long they will remain effective. The AstraZeneca shot is viable for just six months—and early donations to Africa often arrived with little time left. A batch of 191,000 AstraZeneca vaccines rejected by South Africa and reallocated to South Sudan in March arrived there just two weeks before their expiry date; 59,000 were destroyed as a result.
June 8, 2021, 6:07 PM CEST / Updated June 8, 2021, 9:47 PM CEST By David K. Li A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the Wisconsin pharmacist, who destroyed 500 Covid-19 vaccine doses "during a national public health emergency" to three years in prison.
Back in January, Steven Brandenburg agreed to plead guilty to two counts of attempting to tamper with consumer products with reckless disregard.
Theoretically, he could have faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for each count.
But under federal sentencing guidelines, Brandenburg was looking at up to 51 months behind bars.
After completing his 36-month sentence, Brandenburg will face another three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $83,000 in restitution.
“The purposeful attempt to spoil vaccine doses during a national public health emergency is a serious crime,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton said in a statement. “The Department of Justice will continue working with its law enforcement partners to safeguard these life-saving vaccine."
Brandenburg was fired from the Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wisconsin, in December after the hospital said he admitted he "intentionally removed the vaccine from refrigeration.”
Brandenburg told the court on Tuesday that he was "desperately sorry and ashamed" about what he did, NBC affiliate WTMJ reported.
"I just want to finish by saying I am greatly ashamed and I thank you, your honor, for allowing me to say that," he said.
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Brandenburg intentionally removed doses of the Moderna vaccine from its refrigeration during two successive overnight shifts in December, prosecutors said, possibly rendering them ineffective because the vaccine vials must be stored at specific temperatures. Brandenburg then returned the vaccines to the refrigerator after knowing that they had been left out, leading to 57 people being injected with the potentially spoiled inoculations, according to the Department of Justice. Grafton police said Brandenburg is an "admitted conspiracy theorist" who "told investigators that he believed that Covid-19 vaccine was not safe for people and could harm them and change their DNA."
The Wisconsin Pharmacy Examining Board suspended Brandenburg’s license earlier this year, which prohibits him from practicing at state pharmacies.
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