Personally, I think the site does a great job in balancing usability, layout, and (most importantly) good content. Given the extreme time pressures they were probably under, I think they did a great job.
If by "offshoring" you mean will bring lots of investment to the US...
From his bio: "In 2007 he assembled the largest United States trade delegation ever to visit India, comprised of over one hundred business leaders, which resulted in a $99 million investment for the state [of Virginia]."
Most posts here seem to be generalizations based on little to no facts, and I can't see how that's helping the discussion.
Can't speak for the Cisco lady, but Kundra has been kicking serious butt in DC. He's run tech start-ups and runs his agency the same way: aggressive, frugal, and with little tolerance for those that don't performance. Here's a Washington Post article on him from a few weeks ago:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401235.html
He created hundreds of data feeds in his first few months in office to make DC one of the most open governments around. Then a few months ago, he hosted an open competition with $20k of prizes for anyone to create innovative applications using these data feeds.
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The article didn't make mention of the recently passed H-1 (and L-1) reform act that went into effect this summer. It requires that such workers be paid the higher of two salaries: (a) OES published salaries, or (b) what the company pays others for such work.
Not to say that this can't be abused, but the old system made salary abuse by the employer much easier.
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Personally, I think the site does a great job in balancing usability, layout, and (most importantly) good content. Given the extreme time pressures they were probably under, I think they did a great job.
If by "offshoring" you mean will bring lots of investment to the US...
From his bio: "In 2007 he assembled the largest United States trade delegation ever to visit India, comprised of over one hundred business leaders, which resulted in a $99 million investment for the state [of Virginia]."
Most posts here seem to be generalizations based on little to no facts, and I can't see how that's helping the discussion.
Can't speak for the Cisco lady, but Kundra has been kicking serious butt in DC. He's run tech start-ups and runs his agency the same way: aggressive, frugal, and with little tolerance for those that don't performance. Here's a Washington Post article on him from a few weeks ago: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401235.html
He created hundreds of data feeds in his first few months in office to make DC one of the most open governments around. Then a few months ago, he hosted an open competition with $20k of prizes for anyone to create innovative applications using these data feeds.
The article didn't make mention of the recently passed H-1 (and L-1) reform act that went into effect this summer. It requires that such workers be paid the higher of two salaries: (a) OES published salaries, or (b) what the company pays others for such work. Not to say that this can't be abused, but the old system made salary abuse by the employer much easier.