Infrastructure the future of Portugal
The experience of the last two does not allow us to be optimistic about the operation’s ability to carry out the country’s modernization and transformation initiatives.
Except for this rule are two original vice admirals, under the command of Professor Maria Manuel Leitão Leitão, and more recently, rule, rule, against covid-19, under command or command, against covid-19 and Melo.
The ability to organize a new government structure will be crucial to think, plan and, above all, execute as fundamental initiatives, given that the ability to structure in a controlled and consequent way requires systemic and horizontal, interdisciplinary and multisectoral command, which is not compatible with the its reduction to the usual vertical ministerial silos.
António Costa decided to rethink an organization of the next Government, new typical mechanisms of action used in “mission equipment”, the next projects of results of the focused initiatives. Visibility in the face of permanent objectives and the results of the people must be public for permanent mission equipment, under the direct and personal responsibility of the former.
Let us learn from these pasts and take advantage of this unique moment of structuring the country’s government structure to organize ourselves by precise and measurable objectives, provide those responsible for these mission teams with the appropriate financial and material means to achieve them and demos. them to reconfigure Authority and authority to act and decide responsibly, subject to a minimum of bureaucratic and procedural restrictions.
We carry out diligently, with rigor and transparency, the monitoring and audits of its activities and the results they achieve, monitoring in real time, with the powerful IT resources already existing in the State Administration, its performance. You really have to want to do it! For the good of Portugal.
* Distinguished Professor at IST and Founder and Researcher Emeritus of INESC