Perspectives on collaborative technology - Look who's getting in on the act

[MichaelBurns]

Last Friday, President Obama appointed a new Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra. He immediately came out with a number of provocative proposals for building a "collaborative and open technology" platform for all Federal agencies. Kundra has been the CIO of Washington, DC and is interested in building the equivalent of a Facebook for each citizen - where they can select the level of information feeds that will confidentially come to a personal secure site. For example, a constituent might want to track Federal spending on learning, the forward value of their Social Security payments, votes by their Congressman and feeds from NASA or OSHA. Within hours of his appointment, he held a conference call outlining how technology could be used quite differently.

This is an interesting example for corporate CIO's to consider. Read of listen to his conference call and post your comments: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/vivek-kundra-federal-cio-in-hi.html