Not in IT, unfortunately. I work a lot in public projects and the underlying problem is pretty much always politics, not technology.

One project is very simple, in theory. You authorize yourself with BundID, type in some data, these are used to query one agency, you add some more data and then it's sent to another agency. In a sane world, that would mean 5 parties involved. However, we are currently at 10, just for one of the 16 states. Hardly any of that is a technical necessity, it's just political will and incompetence.