Vivek Kundra Feels Ideally Federal Data Be Deemed Public, Not Secret for National Security
Vivek Kundra is out to show that when citizens interact with their government, powerful things can happen. Whether it be with through use of the White House Website or Gov 2.0, Vivek Kundra, and the Obama administration, is innovating the way American citizens collaborate and participate with government. The hope is that people will feel empowered to become leaders and affect change. The result will shape how future generations commune with government.
Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO
As it stands now for Vivek Kundra, he will use his previous experience as CIO in Washington, D.C. to look for ways of using technology that can enable the internal computing systems and services to run better in the United States government. During his short tenure in DC, he inducted many causes regarding tax-saving technology. He has also made advances by switching over the software used internally throughout the Federal government for email and spreadsheets to the versions made by Google. Another worthy effort Vivek Kundra made was leading initiatives to step-up the amount of publicly available government information while lessening the cost needed to furnish this data to the people. Additionally, Vivek Kundra established a contest for developers to enter that would permit him to select the greatest software applications for the official Washington D.C. website.
Vivek Kundra employs his IT expertise to manage United States government funded technology investments. Before being appointed the first of the U.S. Government back in March 2009, Vivek Kundra was CTO for Washington D.C. and Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology for Virginia. He is well on the track to changing the national, and possibly worldwide, perspective of how government interacts with its citizens.
