Barack Obama

A recently published Booz Allen Hamilton report card on the state of IT security within the US government describes public departments as woefully under-resourced and overly reliant on external experts. The report comes on the heels of publicly embarrassing hacks against a number of US government department websites, including the New York Police Department.

Obama's newly appointment Government CIO, Vivek Kundra, is calling on the US Federal Government to take on Web 2.0 tools and start engaging citizens as co-creators of ideas.