{
  "id": 17312,
  "url": "https://www.itweb.co.za/article/oped-govt-it-failures-need-mandatory-public-post-mortems/kYbe97XbZ2YqAWpG",
  "title": "OpEd: Govt IT failures need mandatory, public post-mortems",
  "summary": "The state owes us more than “our computers are offline”, and the time to force transparency on the technocrats is right now.",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "transparency",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-06T08:03:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "x-itweb-za",
  "source_name": "ITWeb (ZA)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.itweb.co.za",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17312",
  "original_url": "https://www.itweb.co.za/article/oped-govt-it-failures-need-mandatory-public-post-mortems/kYbe97XbZ2YqAWpG",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}