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France's "Kafka Index"

By turquhart

France has designed a red tape buster called the "Kafka Index." It will "measure 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." [Link] (via Sepia Mutiny)

The data obtained by this revolutionary index will be used to simplifly bureacratic procedures.

Posted by Toni Urquhart

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on April 18, 2006 (boomark / email).