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DC CTO Vivek Kundra Named To Top Federal IT Job
DCTechCzar writes "The Obama administration plans to announce it has appointed Vivek Kundra, the District of Columbia's chief technology officer, to take the top information technology post in the federal government, according to a source. Kundra, who has deployed advanced applications to improve the performance of public services during his nearly two years as CTO for the District, will replace Karen Evans as administrator for e-government and information technology in the Office of Management and Budget. The position effectively serves as the federal government's chief information officer. The administration could announce Kundra's appointment as soon as Thursday."
As to how many thousands of unpaid back taxes this appointment has?
Yup, he's like all CTO's...
Takes credit for what his people did.
"He deployed" my ass he deployed. He did not do shit other than approve the research and work his people did.
He sat on his ass and took the credit, I did not see him pulling any cable, setting up the servers and working on the application deployment.
Posting Anon to keep from getting fired. A DC IT worker.
I know he's a very accomplished person, but would like to know whether the new appointee is friendly to Open Source Software and Linux in particular. I am optimistic though because he's been "more open" as compared to the typical government official.
Now get us the facts about this man.
The man moved here when he was 11. He IS an American by upbringing. And watching my wife (a first generation American of Indian descent) it is obvious that they try hard to assimilate here while at home being a bit more Indian.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Well, just playing the law of averages.. I'd be willing to guess this guy has some unpaid taxes!
"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
You do realize that the United States Government wasn't set up as a pure democracy, right? It was purposefully structured with a layer of abstraction specifically to keep the ignorant masses from having a direct say. The founding fathers were well aware of what they were doing.
Well, I only started here (Office of the CTO) a few days ago, but around here he's very highly regarded and seen as man of vision. Either way congratulations to Vivek and I hope his replacement will be equally qualified.
Our non-American friends need to know that as far as cities go, Washington D.C., as a city, is probably the -worst- run city in the USA. Because it is the capitol, not only are they subject to their own local authority, but they are also subject to the whims of the US Congress. The existence of the whole thing is a joke because when the country was founded, the states squabbled even over who would have the honor of the national capitol, such that, eventually a few states kicked in a tiny plot of land, formed the "District of Columbia", and thus, the capitol is its own little piece of land under direct federal jurisdiction, whose habitants actually have no constitutional rights. Since that time, there's been a lot of talk about moving the capitol, or making DC a state, or doing something with it. But right now, we have a total screwed up mess of a city that has really no industry besides government, and the result is that, outside the museums, and government offices, the place is pretty much a big stinking ghetto whose most famous mayor was busted for smoking crack.
From this, comes our national CIO.
I'm like, not jumping for joy.
This is my sig.
Daschle was not appointed last week.
Well of course not as his official nomination was only submitted to the Senate back on the 20th of January, but that was not what I was talking about when I said "last week".
Obama picked him in Dec. That would be BEFORE Geither's and richardson's debacle.
And his tax scandal just came out 6 days ago on the 30th of last month which would be LAST WEEK just as I said... I know you think you got some big gotcha on me, but you really didn't.
The administration could announce Kundra's appointment as soon as Thursday.
I'd better get ready to find out then!
Mr. Period: Nine is the one that's right by ten!
Nine: One day I will kill him. Then, I will be Ten.
that this nominee paid his taxes on time.
Still, if you want, you can research through most papers using their online facilities.
for the most part he walked into a mess at the DC school system back in 2007 and worked to upgrade them to something respectable. That and investigating people using government systems to surf porn. Apparently before him most of the record keeping was still in paper form.
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=vivek+kundra&hl=en&um=1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_user_ldate=2008&as_user_hdate=2009&lnav=h0&ldrange=2003,2006
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
Anyone else have a Morrowind flashback or 2?
Naming a god to the post of IT advisor is certainly a newsworthy move, at any rate. (For the unintiated, Vivek is a god in the Elder Scrolls universe, as well as a city that was named after him.)
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
The headline says "Top Federal IT Job", but won't that be the new CTO position? Kundra's (reportedly) being named as Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and information technology, not Chief Technology Officer.
too bad this was subverted by direct election of senators and the rise to power of the opinion poll and focus group
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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hooray for me. however, it did give me the opportunity to see just how bassackwards DC is w.r.t. IT. They got federal money to improve IT in schools, so they spent much of it on a contractor to "study" the current state of IT in the schools. (Hint: 8086 PC XTs and PC Jrs if anything) It was a complete boondoggle.
And the leader of this farcical group is now one of our nation's fearless leaders. fandamntastic.
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
In a previous Slashdot posting, some DC residents commented that he was the real deal. He knows his stuff, and gets things done.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1097003&cid=26519833
There's also a Washington Post article about Kundra linked to in the comments:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401235.html
Yeah...they vote. They vote for tweedle dee or tweedle dum. Give me a break. The fact that 90 percent are idiots are why we suffer under the two mafia system. They can't conceive of voting for anyone who is not part of one of the two parties. Thus they get a choice between the nut cases from the left or the nut cases from the right. Less and less moderates every day in government and more and more extremists.