The Nation’s New Chief Information Officer Speaks - NYT

March 5, 2009, 2:57 pm

(oh...and he talks about cloud computing)

The Nation’s New Chief Information Officer Speaks

By Saul Hansell

Reforming the entire health care system may be easier than doing everything Vivek Kundra says he wants to do when it comes to reforming the government’s computer systems.

Mr. Kundra, the 34-year-old former chief technology officer of the District of Columbia, was named by President Obama this morning to the new position of chief information officer of the United States. That’s a different job than the chief technology officer, a White House position that Mr. Obama said he would create but has yet to define....

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