The tech world is literally (and virtually) beside itself over Obama’s announcement that he plans to appoint the first ever chief technology officer to oversee the full-fledged technologization (not actually a word, but it should be) of his administration. Today, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and entrepreneur Andrea Weckerle took to CNN to extol the president-elect’s decision and offer their advice for the fledgling CTO. Among their more interesting suggestions:
Ruthlessly modernize: Examine the technology used within the federal system and determine what is outdated, redundant and inadequate, then keep what works and expel what doesn’t. Examine procurement polices and demand they are in line with best practices. The results of this endeavor alone will save the federal government massive amounts of money…
Create openness of information: This will serve two important functions, namely allowing people to see what the government is doing, thus fostering accountability born of transparency, and also providing access to data that will inevitably inspire and support innovation and collaboration within the private sector. In this realm, the old adage from the free software movement of “release early, release often” is quite helpful…
Create a single government-wide wiki: A wiki is a Web site that gives users the ability to edit and keep track of those edits historically. The most famous wiki, of course, is Wikipedia. But today, effective large enterprises are implementing wikis internally to allow their employees to rapidly share knowledge and disseminate information; they’ve realized that the time and dissemination efficiencies thereby achieved are substantial.
And, of course, there’s the most important technological task of all: managing the president’s Blackberry.
Related:
RB: The Internet Reveals Obama’s First “Broken Campaign Promise”
RB: Obama Blogs? President-Elect Launches Web Site, Embraces Internet
RB: Politicians v. Technology: Obama, McCain Battle the Internet
January 8th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
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Let’s just hope that Obama has a better grasp of accountability and self-control than the co-founder of Wikipedia. (See: Essjay scandal, Rachel Marsden scandal, Bomis Babes, “Secret Mailing List Rocks Wikipedia, Carolyn Doran scandal, Moscow massage parlor receipt scandal, etc., etc., etc.)
January 19th, 2009 at 11:51 am
The CTO will be charged with ensuring that agencies “have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century” and will lead an interagency effort to “ensure that they use best-in-class technologies.”
Microsoft would like to know…Who you think Obama will appoint?…What do you think are the top priorities for our nation’s first CTO?
Give us your opinion by adding comments to Microsoft’s FutureFed blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/uspublicsector/default.aspx )
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