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2 on rumors re Obama's CTO
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 12:06:11 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: "Sarah Lai Stirland" <stirland () gmail com> Date: January 5, 2009 10:35:58 AM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Any rumors re Obama's CTO yes, there's been a lot of speculation for weeks that it could be Vivek Kundra, DC's CTO: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401235.html?hpid=moreheadlines His blog: http://vivekkundra.blogspot.com/ On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:26 AM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
NY Times says will be announced Wednesday. Any good rumors? ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: January 5, 2009 11:41:12 AM EST To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] Any rumors re Obama's CTO On 01/05 09:26, David Farber wrote:
NY Times says will be announced Wednesday. Any good rumors?
Media has been ramping up on this one. Here is a UK Guardian article from a couple of days ago where Vint Cerf discusses his thoughts on what sort of person might be best suited to fill the job (and includes the statement by Vint that he had not discussed such a position with the Obama team): http://guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/02/politics-obama-white-house Here's the BBC's speculative take, with an older list of proposed names, but including the now current addition of Steve Jobs to the list. They also note that the top interest of Web posters on the Obama CTO Website is Internet access and neutrality (of course, that's a self-selected survey). Second top topic was privacy and repeal of PATRIOT Act: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/obamas_cto.html However, Steve Job's current health is now admitted to be problematic: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7811857.stm I do agree with observers who have speculated that such a role mightperhaps best be filled by someone who has significant high-level business
operations experience, rather than someone more strictly from the academic or engineering realms. But the calculus in such decisions is complex, so it's anyone's guess at this point. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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