“The Obama administration has yet to name a Chief Technology Officer. They have, I should note, appointed a Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra, the former CTO of Washington D.C., whose office is being investigated by the FBI for bribery and money laundering (which apparently occurred when he was the boss),” Leena Rao reports for TechCrunch.
“It’s confusing as to why the President is taking his sweet time to appoint a CTO, when there are clear issues that a CTO could be working on… Take a look at the technology issues page of the White House’s website for a more extensive to-do list awaiting our future CTO,” Rao reports.
“The names that have been bandied about for the position… include Bill Gates, Microsoft founder; Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s CTO; Eric Schmidt, Google CEO and longtime Obama supporter (but he apparently said no to the job); Vint Cerf, the so-called ‘father of the internet’ and VP at Google; Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law professor and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society; Ed Felton, Princeton computer science professor and founder of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy; Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO; and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO,” Rao reports.
Rao reports, “Perhaps the Obama administration is being extra careful not to make another ‘Kundra’ mistake and is carefully evaluating the backgrounds of each candidate. But this should hardly take 5 months.”
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