Re: Two views of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: vijay gill <vgill () vijaygill com>
Date: December 29, 2009 10:01:45 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Two views of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra

Just one item that immediately jumped out in Dvoraks piece - vivek is from UMUC, dvorak looked him up in UMD

/vijay

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:




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> From: Larry Press <lpress () csudh edu>
> Date: December 29, 2009 2:22:41 PM EST
> To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Two views of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra
>
> Dave -- for IP if relevant.
>
> 1.  Information Week has chosen Vivek Kundra as CIO of the Year:
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> http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/leadership/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222002611
>
> The job of opening the government’s databases to the public—complicated by the need to ensure security, privacy, 
> confidentiality, and data quality—is huge, and Kundra will be the first to admit that most of the work lies ahead. In 
> fact, that’s true for everything on his plate: reducing the number of federal data centers, transitioning government 
> agencies to cloud services, bolstering cybersecurity, improving IT project performance, and engaging the public over 
> the Web.
>
> With such a long, unfinished to-do list, you might say that we’re premature in naming Kundra InformationWeek’s Chief 
> of the Year. But that’s where we landed, and here’s why: The federal CIO, now nine months into the job, has 
> demonstrated a compelling vision for overhauling the government’s lumbering IT operations (with 71,000 federal IT 
> workers and more than 10,000 IT systems), and his progress is so far impressive.
>
> ....
>
>
>
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> 2.  Tech Journalist John Dvorak has questioned Kundra's background and qualifications for the position:
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> http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/08/12/special-report-is-us-chief-information-officer-cio-vivek-kundra-a-phony/
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