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Obama Takes Step to Improve Government Technology

posted by azrael on Tuesday August 12 2014, @02:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the even-bigger-government dept.

AnonTechie writes:

On Monday the White House announced the creation of a team of digital experts tasked with upgrading the government's technology infrastructure and making its websites more consumer friendly.

The move is aimed at avoiding a repeat of the website debacle that marred the rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health care legislation last year. While the administration ultimately surpassed its enrollment targets, the opening weeks of sign-ups were riddled with website troubles that raised questions about the administration's competence.

The new digital team will be overseen by Mikey Dickerson, an engineer who took leave from Google in order to oversee fixes to the HealthCare.gov site. 

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 12 2014, @03:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 12 2014, @03:09PM (#80483)

    I agree. We will probably see about as much action as the last 3 times they tried this in the past 6 years.

    The only reason this team got anything done was the major embarrassment the healthcare site was.

    Our officials have little interest in spending optimal amounts or doing the right thing. But making sure their budget this year is big enough not to hurt next year (even though they are not sure what they need next year). http://www.usdebtclock.org/ [usdebtclock.org] vs http://www.usdebtclock.org/2008.html [usdebtclock.org]

    But I wish them luck. We need our gov working together with each other to help us. Not to create gigantic sprawling spending machines. Will not happen though. :(

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