Problem: No access to the email, network and phone system.
Temporary Solution: Use your personal cell phones and setup Gmail accounts for staff.

Of course, this procedure had to be cleared by the White House counsel, but they found a way to keep moving forward. For sure, there are ways to approach this problem in a more proactive way, but it was too late for that, so a Temporary Solution was needed. Good move, in my opinion.

Post from: Strategic IT Planning Blog, by Andres Vivas.

Example of a Temporary Solution

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For starters, who will be the CTO for the government? I know that Google’s Eric Schmidt said no to that position. But I don’t know who is in that short list, and when there will be an announcement about it.

My interest focuses on what is the IT Strategy for the biggest IT client in the world.

I found an interesting articles about the role of the new CTO, from the Federal Computer Week magazine: Obama CTO may lack sufficient influence

Topics like Network Neutrality will occupy central stage, I assume. But what about modernizing the existing infrastructure in all Federal agencies? Make investments in a more efficient way? Not having a centralized strategy for web sites and internet usage?

So, all in all, I have only questions and no answers at this time. I will be monitoring this topic as it is very important to help us understand where the biggest IT spender in the world will be investing. This will probably affect everybody in the IT world in one way or another.

What are your thoughts about the future of the IT investments by the government under the new administration?

Post from: Strategic IT Planning Blog, by Andres Vivas.

CTO for the Obama Administration?

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