Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup

An anonymous reader writes "America's new CIO Steven VanRoekel wants to revamp the federal government and make it as agile as a startup. But first he has to get rid of bugs like the Department of Agriculture's 21 different e-mail systems. From the article: '“Too often, we have built closed, monolithic projects that are outdated or no longer needed by the time they launch,” he said. As an example, he mentioned the Defense Department’s human resources management system. Dubbed the “Defense Integrated Military Human Resource System,” the project was meant to take seven years to develop. Instead, it took 10, cost $850 million and had to be scrapped after 10 years of development in 2010 because it ended up being useless.'"

Even worse in TFA.

[khasim]

From TFA:

He called on the technologists in the audience to submit their ideas on what those rules should be, and he intends to further crowd source the project for ideas at CIO.gov.

So ... "disruptive" and "crowd source". Any others?

âoeGoing forward, we need to embrace modular development, build on open standards, and run our projects in lean startup mode,â he said.

So the crowd sourced plan will be based on open standards to achieve maximum disruption.

Instead of having to go to an office to fill out piles of paper, or waiting for months in an inscrutable process for permits to build projects for example, VanRoekel wants to build mobile apps and web sites that let citizens and businesses interact with the government remotely and conveniently during the flow of their daily lives.

Yes, mobile apps that are crowd sourced should be built on open standards to achieve maximum disruptionability.

Seriously, if you think that people WANT government to be so involved in their lives that they NEED an app to handle their DAILY interaction with it ... fuck you.

He's a CIO that's spouting buzz words.