Asset-level tracking

• I understand that out of context the phrase "asset-level tracking" seems a bit dehumanizing
• And by bit I mean entirely
• But in this regard I want you to think of a human as an asset
• And particularly, a human in need, at risk, what-have-you
• So this asset interfaces with various gov't agencies and NFPs
• And these agencies and NFPs have ostensibly similar goals
• But none of these third parties x-ref with the other third parties w/r/t said asset
• There is no master that ties activities mapping against said asset together
• And thus, policy impacts or other attempts at reaching the "ostensibly similar goals" are difficult to measure and correlate
• So, as opposed to marketing, where we have asset-level tracking and can version control and/or (assuming an appropriately designed database) calculate customer lifetime value, no such analogue exists in society
• This is a problem
• Because I say it is
• QED

Yo:

• Our world is a big big place
• Non-urban environments are not the default
• People don't talk to each other any more (doctors don't make house calls; teachers don't know the parents of their students personally)
• If social workers and teachers and ER docs and etc. etc. etc. could all share information about Ty (hypothetical asset) in order to identify problems and thus root causes in order to architect solutions ...
• Wouldn't that be cool? And more human? And better for society? And cheaper in the long run?

I have no idea what to do with all of this. Create roundtables or regular meet-ups for people who serve zip-code based constituencies? Require signing of abandonment of privacy laws for a discrete list of service providers? Bomb cities and force people to live in caves?