Anxiously Awaiting America's First CTO

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	Anxiously Awaiting America's First CTO

Elizabeth Woyke

3-9-2009 4:17 PM

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Elizabeth Woyke says:

Pres. Obama's delay in appointing the nation's first CTO has Politico wondering whether the president will "keep his tech promises." The publication goes on to argue that the hold-up is impeding Obama's ambitious agenda and generally harming the country's well-being. Does Obama need to name his CTO soon?

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While it’s still a bit early to grade President Obama on how well he’s meeting these promises — his administration is only a little over a month old — people in the technology and good-government communities are beginning to wonder if he will be as good as his word. In particular, they are starting to ask whether his chief technology officer promise has gotten lost somewhere in the bureaucracy. “Where in the world is America’s CTO?” blogged The Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher. “What’s going on? Inquiring minds want to know,” blogged our colleague Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=AA2A0796-18FE-70B2-A8834AF4854A8BFD">Because the application of new information technologies and new collaboration can help save billions of dollars and help solve long-standing problems, it is imperative that Obama name a forward-thinking CTO without further delay.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=AA2A0796-18FE-70B2-A8834AF4854A8BFD">But every day he delays is one more day that the federal government lives in the 20th century, while we live in the 21st. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EAF0E7CE-B51E-4E3E-980F-28124AD74504/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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