Archive for October 20th, 2008
Read a draft of the much discussed OMB CIO memo
We’ve been telling you about the memo — due out any time now — that will outline the role of the CIO. You first read about the memo on the DorobekInsider a few weeks ago… and then we got OMB’s Karen Evans to give us some details… and you can hear Evans talk about it yourself…
The official memo isn’t out yet, but… we’ve obtained a draft of that memo.
Read more… and find a link to the full draft after the break…
DorobekInsider’s most read posts for the past week
The most read posts for the past 7 days on the DorobekInsider.com
* Evans offers details on the coming memo [I also posted audio of Evan’s appearance at AFFIRM. And that memo has not been posted yet… FYI. I’m watching!]
* A correction… and a even bigger congratulations to Microsoft’s Teresa Carlson
* We talk to the new head at Unysis federal
* Today on the Daily Debrief: U.S. Coast Guard 2.0 with Adm. Thad Allen [Editor’s note: This link has Adm. Allen’s YouTube video talking Web 2.0. Just below, I link to Federal News Radio’s interview with Adm. Allen.]
* CORRECTED: Microsoft Federal promotes Carlson
* OMB to memo on the role of the CIO (Hint: There should be one)
* USCG’s Adm. Thad Allen talks government 2.0
* Monday’s Quote of the Day coming from Tweets from Gartner’s Symposium
* And the GIT Rockin’ winner is… Cobb
* Fun worth having — tonight’s GIT Rockin
* Presidential cookies… and your privacy
* Happy birthday to… Phil Bond and George Stone
Who might be the government’s CIO… er, CTO?
BusinessWeek today has a piece, headlined, “The Short List for U.S. Chief Technology Officer: Barack Obama has pledged to name a cabinet-level CTO to oversee a job-creating national broadband buildout if he’s elected. Big names abound.”
Among the names are Vint Cerf, Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos, and Ed Felten, a prominent professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has proposed the creation of a CTO in government.
Unfortunately we simply don’t know much more about what the CTO will do other then what it says above.
The BusinessWeek piece had these thoughts:
Again, just not much there. That’s largely because I’m not sure Team Obama has thought about it.
To be fair, there isn’t much more of a plan on the other side. Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s technology plan have the same platitudes about making more information available online… and then there is this line:
Somebody might want to let the campaign know that Karen Evans is, in fact, OMB’s Administrator of E-Government and Information Technology. So, I’m all for fighting the good fight, but… if he is still fighting for that office to be created, he can let it go. He won!