This morning, it was revealed by White House Officials that the Obama government’s Chief Information officer will be non other than Vivek Kundra. Main tasks will be to organise technology projects for US agencies, and hopefully he will oil the machine of government with skill and precision. His past posts include being chief technology officer for govt of columbia, and he was also voted it executive of 2008, distinguished indeed. Here’s a video:
Here’s a Vivek Kundra Bio from Wikipedia:
“He has been recognized among the top 25 CTO’s in the country[5] and as the 2008 IT Executive of the Year[6] for his pioneering work to drive transparency, engage citizens and lower the cost of government operations. 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.
He has been recognized for interesting work in developing programs to spur open source and crowd sourced applications using publicly accessible Web services from the District of Columbia with an initiative called Apps for Democracy, which he created with iStrategyLabs.
His efforts to use cloud-based Web applications in the District government have been considered innovative within government.
Mr. Kundra is advising President Barack Obama’s transition committee on technology issues. He was considered as one of the possible candidatesfor the newly created post of Federal CTO by the Obama administration, and was confirmed on March 5th”
Hope that gave the info needed on Vivek Kundra.