White House Tech Chiefs Set Strategy?
July 24, 2010
The title, Bringing Government Up to Data, might sound promising but we’re not convinced that the technology that drove Barak Obama’s campaign will translate well into the White House.
Vivek Kundra, Jeffrey Zients and Aneesh Chopra, have been tasked with making the presidents vision of a data driven White House a reality and making government websites that look as cool and appealing as a Apple apps store, but job is larger than it looks and not all that easy. Still they believe that technology may be the answer when it comes to the trail of paper work that the new health care system and other things will bring.
Good luck. The government can’t even budget or control costs offline. Computers cannot help bad management techniques. In fact, computerizing flawed processes produces more errors more quickly. With the tech strategy shifts coming fast and furious, one wonders how the silos of technology within the US government will do much more than boost costs and increase inefficiency.
Rob Starr, July 24, 2010
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