The One Worlders definitely hit the jackpot with this guy, here’s some more from his press conference:
“We need to make sure that all that data thats not private can be made public”, Kundra said. “What we should be thinking about is how do we begin with the assumption that the default be that we put information out into the public domain, and the second question is, what needs to be private and not the other way around”, he said.
I don’t know anything about this guy but if Obama picked him he is probably screw up regardless of what software he pushes. I would think a 34yo is hardly old enough to qualify for such a position. but he does have some serious reputation behind him (from wiki)
“He has been recognized by InfoWorld among the top 25 CTO’s in the country[7] and as the 2008 IT Executive of the Year[8] for his pioneering work to drive transparency, engage citizens and lower the cost of government operations. In 2007 he assembled the largest United States trade delegation ever to visit India, comprised of over one hundred business leaders, which resulted in a $99 million investment for the state.”
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“We need to make sure that all that data thats not private can be made public” -
Okay, if we are talking public data why should it not be open to the public so long as its not secretive in nature..
“What we should be thinking about is how do we begin with the assumption that the default be that we put information out into the public domain, and the second question is, what needs to be private and not the other way around”
Obviously a guy with little serious security background. *anything* with personal information of *any* American citizen needs to be private by default
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Now 2 thoughts for you GE:
1) The guy has lived in the US for about 75% of his life (came her legally at the age of 11. I as the grandson of an immigrant who came much later in life and love this nation deeply have to say... Stop with the place of birth crap. It may very well be this guy is anti American but I can go to most metro ares in the US and not throw a stick without hitting a home grown anti-American.
2) The article makes not *one* mention of code only data, this is not (as of yet) an issue which is even tangential to open source unless that is you can find a history of him taking closed source government code and making it opensource (as the CIO of a state he had the opportunity)