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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 kaszz on Tuesday August 12 2014, @06:41PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday August 12 2014, @06:41PM (#80545) Journal

    Aha.. now you must all upgrade to latest browser instable version with whistles and bells that suck your CPU clean from any performance and allows you to be remotely r00ted. So that you can type some simple text message..
    (be sure NSA has some "extensions" builtin)

    The latest web trends seems just to complicate the http+html rather than actually accomplish anything more useful than was before.

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