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Obama Appoints Non-Tech Guy As CTO

Posted by Soulskill on from the jesse-ventura's-political-return dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "President Barack Obama has named his chief technology officer, and the appointee is not a Silicon Valley name like so many predicted. He is Aneesh Chopra. As the Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, his job has been to 'leverage technology in government reform, promote Virginia's innovation agenda, and foster technology-related economic development with a special emphasis on entrepreneurship.' But Chopra's not a tech guy. Before he got his secretary job in 2005, he was a managing director at the Advisory Board Company, a public-market health care think tank, as well as an angel investor." O'Reilly Radar is running an article discussing why Chopra is a good choice for federal CTO.

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  1. as expected by Gothmolly · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Liberal? check
    Brown? check
    Intelligensia? check
    Farking the public again? check

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  2. Hope and Change!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What do you know? A non-IT guy for CTO. Brilliant. Now THAT is hope and change!

    Oh well, I guess we should be getting used to these shockingly bad decisions by the Obama administration. What's next? Emeril in change of the military? Norman Schwarzkopf in charge of healthcare? Ann Coulter in charge of the HUD (oh wait, she's not eligible, she paid her taxes)?

    Maybe the solution to solving our government's technology problems is to just throw another trillion dollars or so at it. I mean, what's another trillion when we've already spent $12.8 Trillion? That'll only bring Obama's deficit to like 83% of our GDP instead of 80%.

    Ya know what, for good measure, if $1 Trillion is good $1.5 Trillion is better -- let's do that and create and require the unionization of IT workers. That's what we'll do! It'll be patriotic!

    Is it 2012 yet?

  3. Re:Open Source Alternatives by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that he's not a tech guy himself

    Let's not screw around here: Is he Mac or PC?

    If we can't find a reason to hate this guy, there's going to be a lot of unhappy people.

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