By annie shum | November 11, 2009
Nov 6 2009 10:10PM GMT
Posted by: Alexander Howard
U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, appearing Friday as the keynote speaker at the University of Maryland’s CIO Forum, touched on a number of topics affecting both public- and private-sector CIOs. Some of his comments follow:
“We found that the role of CIOs in the federal government is very much focused on data centers, networking and technology, not on how we can transform the function of the public sector itself.” He explained that he wants to “leverage tech to fundamentally change the way the public sector operates.” Now, as the federal government works to account for each of the $787 billion in spending from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and publishes more data from its agencies, Kundra said, “we’re shifting away from democratizing data to thinking about how public policy can be powered by that information.”
Kundra has been a proponent of cloud computing for years, going back to his position as the CTO of the District of Columbia, where he signed a contract with Google for business services. Today, he emphasized the need for security, interoperability and data portability in federal government use of cloud computing. “As we make the shift towards cloud computing, security threats need to be addressed. Solutions cannot be bolted on afterwards. Data portability is central, so that as we move from Vendor A to Vendor B we architect this with interoperability and standards so that we don’t spend billions later.”
Questioned on whether service-oriented architecture still is an emphasis in a federal cloud computing paradigm, Kundra said SOA “absolutely” still matters. “Look at the Social Security Administration and what it’s done with SOA and local government,” he said. “They can build lightweight applications to interact with databases elsewhere.” That embrace of modern development practices extends beyond just SOA or upgrading programmers’ skills from COBOL. “How do we move towards an agile procurement or agile development methodology?” asked Kundra. “
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posted by Alexander Howard, Nov 6, 2009
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