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White House Chief Technology Officer Steps Down
New submitter Krazy Kanuck writes "The White House is running a story on their OSTP blog that Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra is stepping down after being appointed to the post by President Obama in 2009. There is some mention of him returning to his home state of Virginia, and the Washington Post suggests a possible bid for lieutenant governor."
Maybe we can talk someone in the White House press office to use Ask Slashdot for technical questions and Your Rights Online for recommendations on tech bills... Would somebody please put together a resume for We the People of Slashdot?
At least he isn't stepping down to a lobbying position for the media industry. I half expected that when I read the title. Though I guess he still can...
Aneesh Chopra current lieutenant governor of Virginia has introduced the death penalty for on-line piracy bill (DPOP)
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
That sounds awfully familiar somehow.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Care to give an example to back up your claim? He seemed to do a good job, from the little I saw about him. He was behind the push to bring better internet access to rural areas, expanding access to electronic health records, and he opposed SOPA. For a new position without a very clearly defined set of goals, I'd say he did fine.
Honestly,
This is why we (the US) needs a far more established 'Pirate Party' (Yes, the name is terrible, but the ideas behind it, I'm sure many agree with) so a shown to others, able-bodied, pool of candidates would already be present.
True, the chances of hell of actually being voted in to such a position would be slim to none, however, it is a good catalyst for said party to bring ideas and ideals to attention to the general public.
Mass. and I believe another state has an officially registered party -- Where are all the other states? Let's GO people!
And yet, it is better than it has been in almost a decade. The last admin took a great economy, peacetime, no defict, and then created world wars all over, ran up massive deficits and destroyed western economies while sending the jobs to China, North Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, and even Iran.
consolidating the government's Data centers and starting a real push to update the infrastructure to something resembling the 2010's rather than the 1980's is not doing much?
When he was the CTO of Virginia, he made an agreement with Northrop Gruman that setup large systems for the DMV such that if there were any failure in the server area, the entire system--statewide--lost connectivity. It wasn't until the current governor of Virginia took office that the contract was forced to be renegotiated so that we got a better deal.
Similarly thanks to him, the Virginia State Police now rent all of their computers rather than buying them outright, and their systems lack the resources to handle their actual requirements.
Awesome job by him, not only by giving the work to a defense contractor when an in-state business could have absolutely done it better, and likely for less, but for just generally screwing it up.
In short, he left Virginia's infrastructure in a devastated position whenever he touched it because he is a fool in good clothes.