Challenge.gov is all well and good, with big cash prizes for innovation, but we've seen a lot of this sort of thing before. Is this the best that America's CIO can come up with?READ»
Vivek Kundra, the first CIO of the U.S., today relaunched his IT Dashboard, a Web site (and now mobile app) that enables anyone to view the finest details of the federal government's $80 billion IT spending. Kundra told Politico ...READ»
The government's plan to make its online presence more user- and owner-friendly has been a long-term plan of the Obama administration. Last year, the White House switched from a proprietary content management system to Drupal, and on ...READ»
The University of Washington was the place to be yesterday. Aside from Steve Ballmer's speech extolling Microsoft's position on the Cloud, we had the President's Tech Wizard, Vivek Kundra, setting out his vision for getting the ...READ»
The U.S. government launched USASpending.gov, a Web site to track billions of dollars in government information technology spending. It's an official effort to be more accountable.
The dashboard was unveiled at the ...READ»
After yesterday's FBI raid, Obama's new CIO, Vivek Kundra, is suddenly taking "a leave from his position," reports NBC. FBI agents raided Kundra's former office, where he was CTO of the Washington, DC district. Two former ...READ»
Just the other day I wrote about Obama's newly appointed CIO, Vivek Kundra, and his love affair with Google, RIM, and Apple. Well, Microsoft may be in luck after all. This morning twelve FBI agents reportedly stormed the Washinton, ...READ»
Ever since Vivek Kundra was appointed by Obama last week as the US's first Chief Information Officer, the blogosphere has been abuzz about what it will mean for tech juggernauts like Google, Microsoft, and Apple. The 34-year-old ...READ»