Rearranging the Digital Furniture
In a digital age, every business is technologically on track except for the nation's business--the federal government.
Lord help me for suggesting this, but we need a Bureau of Information Technology (BIT) within the federal government. Complete with staffing, salaries, vision and focus second to none, a Googlization of the Washington bureaucracy.
Make a note: Michael Chertoff is not the guy to run it.
Made a national priority (as if we didn't already have enough of those), BIT would be created by statute, an agency that answers only to the Congress, headed by a triumvirate of computer scientists. Very highly paid professionals, these three, who would oversee a Manhattan Project for the continuing hardware and software upgrades within government agencies.
Cross-platform access essential—no more turning a blind eye to an inability to reference between ‘protected turfs.’
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