in your unbiased opinion?

Every single sector of public employees would claim their own as vital to the organization, and that their budget is more important than the budget of the other groups, and their people more vital, with more difficult experience to come by, etc.

On the other hand, picture this fire 5% of your IT workforce, some servers slow down, some computers break, people have to borrow stuff. Fire 5% of your maintenance workers, and you have dirty bathrooms, overflowing toilets, nobody checking the chlorine level in the water supply, rampant spread of disease, and nobody can see the computers in the first place because the lights are out.

Fire 5% of the cops, maybe the jail stops working and violent criminals roam the streets.

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Face it IT, being cool and part of the future does not make you vitally important.

the difference is...

To the commenter above. I lived in Buenos Aires all my life, then got married and moved to Cordoba.

The problem I have with the scenario you paint above is that it would be true in a city with rampant budget deficits. Buenos Aires is Argentina's wealthiest cities and this effort of this map site is something that should be promoted, encouraged, and state universities should have their IT engineers trained there to see what putting IT to solve real-world problems looks like, not downsized. Have you seen the movie "Roger and Me"?

take care
maxi