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The US government's first CIO, Vivek Kundra, said that he
will aggressively to change the federal government's use of IT by adopting
consumer technology and ensuring that government data is open and
accessible.
He said he wanted to use cloud computing to attack the
government's culture of big-contract boondoggles and its hiring of contractors
who end up "on the payroll for ever.
According to reports in the US press one
of his first projects is to create a data.gov Web site to "democratize" the
federal government's vast information by making them accessible in open
formats.
He said that the government's contracting record for IT projects
was pants and most of them haven't performed well. Kundra wants to move the
government away from its dependence on big IT contracts and sees cloud based
services used by the private sector as the way forward.