New National CIO and Open Source Software

"As Washington D.C.'s CTO, Kundra posted the bidding process for city contracts on YouTube, encouraged employees to use Twitter as a workplace tool, adopted Google Apps for better collaboration among city agencies, and was working on letting drivers pay parking tickets and renew their licenses on Facebook. Even more forward-thinking was his well-publicized Apps for Democracy contest, in which citizens vied for prize money by designing applications that would enable data such as crime reports and pothole repair schedules to be accessed via mobile devices. This is a federal CIO for a new generation of Americans, a generation that's using technology to connect with the world around them, and that will expect its government to do the same." snagged from CIO.

This is going to be great since the guy, Kundra, seems to show a willingness to try new things. Let's hope we see more gov agencies on all levels (local, state, and national) adopt more open source software as well as use more social software/web 2.0 applications.