President Barack Obama has never been a big fan of government IT. Obama said government IT, across all agencies, is just “horrible,” Obama said at a fundraiser in Chicago last night. Obama’s feelings about government technology aren’t surprising. CIO Vivek Kundra has been consistently critical of the government’s pace of technology adoption, faulting it in 2009 for not moving to cloud services or social network-like platforms for information sharing. In 2009, Obama indicated that he was more interested in continuing to use his BlackBerry than in getting a “cool phone””]
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