Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Yesterday Barack Obama chose Vivek Kundra for the post of Federal CIO, entrusting him with the task of overseeing the IT architecture of the federal government. Kundra is very fond of Google and what it has to offer.  ’Why should I spend millions on enterprise apps when I can do it [with Google] at one-tenth cost and ten times the speed? It’s a win-win for me,’ he says.

This is one of the many ways the new administration is catching up with technology and its commitment to be a more open government with larger public involvement through available Web 2.0 tools.

The only question is, isn’t this too much power for one company, especially for Google, which has its hand on almost anything that’s on the Internet? You can also catch the announcement of the DC-Google Partnership a few days ago on YouTube:

The United Nations is trying again to enforce its believes and demands to the world, this time trying to pass a law that would make blasphemy punishable by law. In particular, the UN says “blasphemy against Islam” and is backed by 57 countries (many of which are muslim). Not that it has a chance, but a bill like that would strike right at the heart of the most basic human right – freedom of speech.

Watch and see Christopher Hitchens’s thoughts on that (I won’t spoil it for you)… oh and I was joking about the eating babies part, but I wouldn’t be too surprised.