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Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03

New CIO's Job One: Fix federal contracting

DC's Guv 2.0 czar Vivek Kundra promises to bring federal government into the modern age, but he will have to confront the government's cumbersome contracting and purchasing procedures. by Richard Koman

Tags: Job, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-07

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Obama names D.C. CTO Kundra as federal CIO

President Obama today named Vivek Kundra, Washington, D.C.'s chief technology officer, to the position of federal chief information officer. Kundra, who previously served as a technology policy adviser for President Obama (and who ZDNet Open Source blogger Dana Blankenhorn considers "Obama's tech daddy"), will be responsible for...

Tags: Washington, Barack Obama, CTO, Vivek Kundra, Government, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-05

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Washington finally embraces tech; the benefits will be here soon

It's fitting that Washington's top IT administrator, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, would come out to Silicon Valley to announce one of the federal government's largest technology initiatives - a cloud computing marketplace for government agencies that's designed to reduce red-tape and allow faster deployment of money-saving, energy-efficient cloud-based software. ...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Washington, Benefit, Sergey Brin, Tech Industry, Government, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Federal Government, Internet, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

White House unveils cloud-based Apps.gov in bid to fix federal IT

Cloud computing is the future of federal computing, CIO Vivek Kundra suggested today, with the announcement of Apps.gov and a dedicated government offering from Google. by Richard Koman

Tags: Richard Koman, Information Technology, White House, Government, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Vertical Industries, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Rule change will bring Web 2.0 to federal sites

There's Internet time. And then there's government time. In the case of cookies, the two are wildly divergent. Back in 2000 (that was the year of IE 5 and Netscape 6 and we were four years from Firefox 1.0), regulations were passed that banned government websites from using cookies. That...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Privacy, Web Site, Cookie, Government, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-11

U.S. CIO launches companion blog to federal IT dashboard, but lacks discussion

On Monday, U.S. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra launched a new blog that will serve as a companion to the U.S. federal IT dashboard on the it.usaspending.gov site. by Jason Hiner

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Blog, Dashboard, Blogging, Internet, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Video: U.S. CIO Kundra answers questions about new federal IT dashboard

After unveiling the U.S Federal IT Dashboard, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra did an online chat with citizens to answer their questions about the dashboard. Macon Philips, the White House Director of New Media, facilitated the questions while Kundra answered them in this 30-minute video. by Jason Hiner

Tags: U.S., CIO, Information Technology, Dashboard, Video, Question, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-02

U.S. federal IT dashboard is a great example of how to promote IT

U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled the new Federal IT Dashboard on Tuesday at the Personal Democracy Forum 2009. See what lessons IT leaders can take from this new initiative. by Jason Hiner

Tags: U.S., Information Technology, Dashboard, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-01

White House launches Data.gov

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has launched Data.gov, serving up federal datasets in standard formats like XML, CSV and geo-formats KML/KMZ and ESRI. Discussing the site in the Times, Saul Hansell notes: The value of this, of course, is that when information is made...

Tags: White House, Data, Sunlight Foundation, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-25

O'Reilly: Chopra is the Government 2.0 choice for CTO

Is the pick of Aneesh Chopra as the nation's CTO a snub for Silicon Valley? After all, Chopra comes from Virginia state government and CIO Vivek Kundra was most recently in D.C. government. You'll recall in the midst of the speculation about who Obama would pick for these posts, I...

Tags: Job, CTO, Health Care, Government, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Frugal Friday: Conficker, SGI, TomTom, Tableau Software

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I start the new 1-Hour format of Frugal Friday with a half hour of news discussion (Conficker.C, Rackable purchase of Silicon Graphics, Microsoft vs. TomTom settlement) and a half hour of discussion with our special guest, Elissa Fink of Tableau Software,...

Tags: CIO, TomTom, Silicon Graphics Inc., Tableau Software, Podcasts, Litigation, Databases, Internet, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-04

Bribery arrests in Kundra's DC office

Reuters reports that the FBI raided the former office of Vivek Kundra, just appointed to be the nation's CIO, and arrested two people in a corruption probe on Thursday, but Kundra is not a target of the investigation. Yusuf Acar, apparently the chief security officer for the CTO's office,...

Tags: Bribery, Government, Federal Government, Litigation, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-14

Berners-Lee warns of govt, corp. intrusion into Web

Speaking at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee warned Web users that tracking of their Website travels could allow governments and companies to create highly detailed portraits of their online lives, Reuters reports. "That form of snooping I think is really important to avoid," he told an anniversary celebration at...

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Intrusion, Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Getting inside a CIO's head

I was disappointed to see that our nation's first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, is having some major distractions, with the FBI raiding the District of Columbia CIO's office he was overseeing. According to this report from ZDNet's Sam Diaz, Kundra has not been linked to the raid, which stemmed...

Tags: Job, CIO, SOA, Mike, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Recruitment & Selection, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Federal CIO on leave following FBI sting at DC offices

The U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, appointed by President Obama last week, has been placed on leave, following an FBI raid yesterday at the District of Columbia's IT offices. Techmeme Kundra, who was previously the District's Chief Technology Officer and worked in the offices, has not...

Tags: White House, FBI, Raid, Federal Government, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-13

The U.S. Government, Innovation and Data We Can Believe In

Aahh. Everything about Barack Obama has seemed so fresh and original. Hey, he's the first [fill in the blank] to be president. And everything he does is refreshingly different from his predecessor, whose most amazing quality was his ability to get elected twice. (As if that was...

Tags: Innovation, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Government, Leadership, Strategy, Federal Government, Management, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-12

New CIO's vision: Democratizing Data

DC's data feed of crime data on Google Maps links a police report to the location. W. David Stephenson knows our new federal CIO pretty well: he's been cowriting a book with him: Democratizing Data, to be published by O'Reilly. So I turned to Stephenson...

Tags: Performance, Data, Vision, DC, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-08