Though President Obama has yet to announce a CTO, he has announced his choice for Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra. His choice is a promising one, given Kundra’s fantastic success as CTO for Washington D.C. For example, he saved the city millions by switching off Microsoft’s Office platform and onto Google’s Apps platform for desktop productivity and even crowdsourced technology solutions for the city, saving even more millions in development fees.
O’Reilly has a great summation of audio and video clips describing what Kundra has to say. Viewing them has given me great hope for the US and our amazing leader who can recognize innovative talent in this traditionally unfathomable space.
