France has created a "Kafka index" that measures the complexity of a project or law against its usefulness to cut red tape.The index - referring to Franz Kafka's The Trial, which describes one man's fight against a nightmarish bureaucracy - is a scale of one to 100 measuring how many hurdles, from forms to letters or phone calls, are needed to win state permits or aid for a project.
"It is an indicator to measure as objectively as possible the most complex procedures so that we can then simplify them"
This is what I found in Brussels. I thought it was interesting but my tutor dismissed it off as an art installation until I did more research. It's a really cool concept and it started in France. They have a Kafka building in Brussels and the index is displayed to the public. Hmm.. wonder if they'll have one in Malaysia
4 comments:
Kafka sounds familiar... issit used by some other organisation?
Hi Mien,
From the article you posted 2 posts back, I'd think Malaysia's index might just be breaking some records. *grin*
Thanks for posting this, really interesting!
haha. it's great that you're starting to make the links between different scenarios. it's sad how we Malaysians seem to be getting known for the wrong things aren't we? there are a lot of positive things going on, but the negative outshines the positive.
you've got me really interested in some of the books you're looking at. itching to buy from amazon here. are you getting them cheaper over there?
joot, Kafka was born in Prague (now part of Czech). He's a writer. There's a museum on him in Prague.
Quoting from a site. Hope this explains more:
"This shy tubercular Jew depicted the absurdity of modern life and its power structures in a series of parable like short stories and novels featuring grotesque imagery and an almost religious depth. He became an adjective - Kafkaesque - a term which encompasses the absurdity, grotesqueries and depth characteristic of his work"
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