Comments on: What Should The New U.S. CTO Do? http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: US has CTO and CIO « bohemian rants http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167949 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:01:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167949 [...] What Should The New U.S. CTO Do? (gigaom.com) [...]

]]> By: TSMC 40nm Technology | SemiSerious http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167948 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:51:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167948 [...] What Should The New U.S. CTO Do? [...]

]]> By: Francis http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167947 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:31:01 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167947 Chopra’s appointment is good for VoIP.

He transformed the phone systems at Commonwealth of Virginia offices to fully hosted and trunking on the BroadSoft platform. Federal offices could be next.

]]> By: rohit http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167946 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:00:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167946 1. Come out to Silicon Valley for a GeekHall meeting.
2. Reduce friction towards a faster net for everyone.
3. Speak truth to lobby-powers.

]]> By: zubinwadia http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167945 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:53:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167945 This list applies to Vivek Kundra and Aneesh Chopra:

http://zwadia.com/?p=75

Cheers,

Zubin.

]]> By: james kim http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167944 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:41:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167944 2 things:
technology education
incentives for technology improvements/investments by businesses, individuals

]]> By: Hear Hear http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167943 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:45:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167943 John J hit the nail on the head!

]]> By: Jeff http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167942 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:17:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167942 Faster internet. And in all markets, one of two things:
1: Competition
OR
2: PSC oversite on rates to prevent gouging.

]]> By: Jet http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167941 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:47:13 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167941 The biggest problem we all face is energy supplies.

The Oil Price Spike in July 2008 is what killed the world economy. The world economy crashed so hard that oil demand is down so far that oil prices collapsed. The Crash has killed off all the world’s banks and most of the car companies. The only thing which stopped complete chaos was huge government bailouts and stimulus. If they do manage to get the world economy growing again (big if) Oil Prices will just Spike again and crash things harder. Oil production has peaked at around 85 million barrels / day – but the 3rd world wants high living standards also. That would require 4 or 5 times more oil 400 million barrels / day.

If someone does not find some way to replace oil with solar / biomass energy system we are all doomed and we will watch the end of civilization on our big screens………

The only thing which will solve the energy problem is technology. The very best and most focused technical efforts are required.

This is the only thing Obama and all the other world leaders should be worried about and focused on.

]]> By: vishal http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167940 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:06:04 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167940 make sure that legal immigrants are taken care of… its insane how many talented technologist will leave this country in 2009 due to visa and GC woes…. i think since he is the CTO. he should make sure that the best technical talent is made the best use of in creating more jobs rather than buried in some company somewhere for 8-10 years to get a GC.

]]> By: Nitin Borwankar http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167939 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:11:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167939 a) Ask every govt department to justify why it should be using proprietary software – if justification not satisfactory – move to open source – this includes especially MS Office vs Open Office.org. This is the taxpayers money after al and we should have the ability to ask these questions.

b) Create a search engine for finding all software that has been created through govt (NSF, NIH etc) funding ( such a thing doesn’t exists and vast amount sof software created by taxpayer money cannot be found easily ).

c) Make the technology procurement process transparent and simple

[[ maybe some of this overlaps with the CIO role - not sure ]]

]]> By: Brandon Mendelson http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167938 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:52:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167938 Assuming his specific job duties are cleared up?

1. Generate a policy on net neutrality (if it is deemed necessary)
2. Examine how social networks can be better integrated within the framework of the federal government to reduce expenses and improve efficiency.

]]> By: Rob Blatt http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167937 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:21:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167937 He should act in the best interests of the government in terms of upgrading the technology that’s used on US internal systems. The government’s computer and technology systems are woefully behind the times. They never had an advocate from inside the government to update systems to increase efficiency. That should be his first task.

]]> By: Rob Blatt http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167936 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:21:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167936 He should act in the best interests of the government in terms of upgrading the technology that’s used on US internal systems. The government’s computer and technology systems are woefully behind the times. They never had an advocate from inside the government to update systems to increase efficiency. That should be his first task.

]]> By: Akshar http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167935 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:07:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167935 Create a Twitter account!

]]> By: John J http://gigaom.com/2009/04/19/what-should-the-new-us-cto-do/#comment-167934 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:29:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=46360#comment-167934 He should resign and lobby Obama to stop creating more unconstitutional government positions.

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