Google Docs "Power User" Appointed First US Gov CIO
Vivek Kundra, long expected to be appointed the first ever CTO of the US Federal Government, will instead be appointed as the country's first Chief Information Officer (CIO), according to reporting done by the Washington Post's Kim Hart.
Kundra became "web 2.0 famous" last Fall when as D.C. CTO he switched 38,000 District of Colombia government employees off of Microsoft Office and onto Google apps instead. What kinds of crazy moves could he make as the government's CIO? We can only imagine.
The CIO appointment has not been announced yet, only speculated on based on Washington Post reporting. There has been, for example, no comment made on Kundra's Twitter account (since October, in fact) - but we're watching for one! We presume the reports are true, though.
We noticed that Kundra's bio page on the D.C. government's website was removed this week but remains in Google's cache.
See Jobwire, our site covering new hires in tech, for our extended coverage of the likely forthcoming announcement.
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First US Gov CIO @VivekKundra still hasn't Twitter's avatar.:(
Posted by: Igor Poltavskiy
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March 5, 2009 12:58 AM
Igor: He also only has 3 tweets and they're all the same. Fail.
Posted by: kylehase
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March 5, 2009 1:06 AM
Just another guy getting a huge salary in the time of economic crisis.
Whoever these government officials being appointed must do their responsibilities and tasks properly. They should focus more on the benefit of the people. People who elected them believe them to be worthy of their position.
I Visit ViviKundra tonight and I found not active update on there tweet,however,with the use of Google DOCS,It is because the DOcs is easy more to be used for "live file sharing via Google mail ,other than that I think it benefit Google another more reputations.and another pushed to Microsoft words Popularity to the other edge of Innovations
I hope google guys can fix the economy too.
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It would be interesting to do a follow-up to how the government is doing with Google Apps.
I've been trying to use Google Apps for about a month now. While I absolutely LOVE the fact that I don't have to keep syncing everything (between my laptop, work computer, home computer)... the lack of some quality features is a little difficult to deal with.
I've found that it's great for basic things like writing simple letters or project work... but, it lacks some of the very powerful tools that Office already has.
So, again... it's be interesting to see if it's actually been productive enough to work in a real time environment.
If they want people to pay a small fee to use Twitter they might lose the fight because although I am sure companies will pay so they don't lose out on business, I doubt customers/users will and they will probably start to use any other free social media sites...can be tricky I can't wait to see what they have in store.
I have the biggest "nerd crush" on Vivek. I saw him speak recently and had goosebumps.
As DC CTO he centralized DC agency data and made it available at ( http://data.octo.dc.gov/ ) then held a contest for people to create mashups based on that data ( http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/application-directory/ ).
Play with the data. Imagine this on a national level. Dare to dream. Vivek is a genius and we are all better off for this appointment.
Having an active twitter account is a terrible prerequisite for a job of this type. What you need is someone who can a) know what tech is right for the job, b) be able to convince others adopting is worthwhile, c) successfully deploy, and d) evaluate results and plan next steps, repeating the loop. Making changes in big organizations - public or private sector - is NOT easy.
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