Thursday, March 5, 2009

How Technology is used in DC & now to Federal Government ?

D.C. Tech Chief Headed For White House Slot:

President Obama plans to announce today that Vivek Kundra, chief technology officer for the District, will be the federal chief information officer, according to two administration officials.

Who is Vivek Kundra ?

Vivek Kundra, 34, is expected to oversee how government agencies purchase and use information technology and will be in charge of all federal technology spending. He also will be responsible for making sure agencies' networks and systems work together and share information while maintaining security and privacy standards.
Source :
http://www.octo.dc.gov/octo/site/default.asp?octoNav=|32777|

Interesting :
New Technology adoption to implement cloud computing rather than traditional application development: Check out presentation
http://www.octo.dc.gov/octo/site/default.asp?octoNav=|32777|

by Innovating IT Staff Augmentation :
http://www.octo.dc.gov/octo/cwp/view,a,1301,q,640349.asp

Kundra will have budgetary authority to launch entirely new systems within government departments, or kill existing multimillion-dollar IT projects. His decisions could have a large impact on government contractors, such as SAIC and Booz Allen Hamilton, that have come to provide the bulk of IT services to agencies.

He also will be charged with using technology to lower the cost of government operations and making government data more accessible to citizens, two things he championed as the District's chief technology officer. In that role, he got attention for letting independent developers create online applications using government information, for example, posting training videos on YouTube and creating an internal "wiki" site called DCpedia, for employees.

Looks like lot of new technology implementations to the government Sector.

Let we also suggest some new Innovative IT Solutions & stream line US Government Process to be effective and cost effective.



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