Richard Tafoya
Apr 19th, 2009, 03:03 PM
WSJ:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/18/tech-industry-cheers-as-obama-taps-aneesh-chopra-for-cto/
It may not be the Cabinet-level post that some were hoping for, but President Obama finally named the U.S.’s first chief technology officer on Saturday morning during his weekly radio and Internet address.
Aneesh Chopra, currently Virginia’s secretary of technology (http://www.technology.virginia.gov/OfficeInfo/chopraBio.cfm), got the nod and will soon join his former colleague Vivek Kundra, the national chief information officer (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/05/recoverygov-guru-named-obama-cio/), on a team tasked with using technology to make government more efficient. “Aneesh will promote technological innovation to help achieve our most urgent priorities — from creating jobs and reducing health care costs to keeping our nation secure,” Obama said in his Saturday radio address (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Weekly-Address-President-Obama-Discusses-Efforts-to-Reform-Spending-Government-Waste-Names-Chief-Performance-Officer-and-Chief-Technology-Officer).
Chopra will be an assistant to the President and his formal title will be associate director for technology under the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy office. He’s led tech efforts for the state of Virginia since 2003 and previously worked as managing director with the Advisory Board Company, a health-care industry advisory and research firm.
Silicon Valley execs and tech bloggers sounded genuinely excited about Obama’s choice Saturday morning and tech industry lobbying groups TechNet and the Business Software Alliance quickly released statements of support, as did several tech heavyweights.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/18/tech-industry-cheers-as-obama-taps-aneesh-chopra-for-cto/
It may not be the Cabinet-level post that some were hoping for, but President Obama finally named the U.S.’s first chief technology officer on Saturday morning during his weekly radio and Internet address.
Aneesh Chopra, currently Virginia’s secretary of technology (http://www.technology.virginia.gov/OfficeInfo/chopraBio.cfm), got the nod and will soon join his former colleague Vivek Kundra, the national chief information officer (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/05/recoverygov-guru-named-obama-cio/), on a team tasked with using technology to make government more efficient. “Aneesh will promote technological innovation to help achieve our most urgent priorities — from creating jobs and reducing health care costs to keeping our nation secure,” Obama said in his Saturday radio address (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Weekly-Address-President-Obama-Discusses-Efforts-to-Reform-Spending-Government-Waste-Names-Chief-Performance-Officer-and-Chief-Technology-Officer).
Chopra will be an assistant to the President and his formal title will be associate director for technology under the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy office. He’s led tech efforts for the state of Virginia since 2003 and previously worked as managing director with the Advisory Board Company, a health-care industry advisory and research firm.
Silicon Valley execs and tech bloggers sounded genuinely excited about Obama’s choice Saturday morning and tech industry lobbying groups TechNet and the Business Software Alliance quickly released statements of support, as did several tech heavyweights.