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September 15, 2009 By Matt Williams
The shopping cart model presumes you have a stable set of agreements with fixed price points, but that might not be as competitive as if you continually re-bid it, he explained.
It's a question Willey is grappling with. He said the District of Columbia is looking at the feasibility of developing a similar purchasing storefront for D.C.'s government agencies, which would allow them to conveniently buy software and services from Willey's Office of the Chief Technology Officer or from vendors.
Kundra mentioned repeatedly during Tuesday's announcement that the government is focused on maintaining and improving the security of the applications and services offered by Apps.gov. And he said the federal government will continue to keep its sensitive data and systems in-house.
The feds spend $76 billion annually on IT, Kundra said. "Yet there have been a number of innovations that have happened that we [the federal government] haven't been a beneficiary of because there are legitimate issues around security, and there are legitimate issues around privacy, that haven't been addressed. What we've been able to do now is take on those issues," he said.
Products and vendors on Apps.gov will someday be required to carry Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification, and a number of vendors are working on that accreditation, Kundra said. But the software and services that are available now on the Web site are no different than off-the-shelf versions, he explained.
The transition toward cloud computing will require working with Congress in the coming years on legislation for technology standards and interoperability, he said.
"Moving into this new world of cloud computing, as we look at the very definition of FISMA and some of the security standards in this new environment, we have to look at how security is applied in this space," Kundra said.
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We knew it was a matter of "if" not "when" - applause to the "Kundra corps" for making more easily available to us the data that we, as citizens, have already paid for with our taxes, via Data.gov, and now stretching our taxpayer dollars further through the GSA-backed Apps.gov, announced today. What we are seeing is the consumerization (the G-to-C, i.e., govt-to-citizen) of federal data and web services, following the B-to-C (business-to-consumer) model of the dot-com era. In fact, a major "Government 2.0" event last week in the capital featured many such applications, as we've written about http://guengerich.wordpress.com. It's a very smart play by the current administration, providing a way for the Net Gen a chance to shift their energies from campaign to governance. However, I predict, just as with B-to-C, G-to-C will run ahead of the G-to-G (or govt to govt, i.e., intra- and inter-agency) applications that we can expect to see. The challenges of shifting large-scale, enterprise systems, cultures, and processes in the distributed federal bureaucracy are enormous and must happen from within. The Obama administration (even if you give it 7 more years) can only get a start at this change, with efforts like Apps.gov. No doubt, it will happen and I love the bold direction. But like all such changes (the internet included), people tend to vastly over-estimate the speed at which such transformative change will take place, but likewise underestimate the far-reaching scale and duration of the transformative change, once it takes hold and becomes the norm. Good luck to Vivek, Casey, Aneesh, and the many others who are working hard to drive these changes through our federal IT infrastructure.
We knew it was a matter of "if" not "when" - applause to the "Kundra corps" for making more easily available to us the data that we, as citizens, have already paid for with our taxes, via Data.gov, and now stretching our taxpayer dollars further through the GSA-backed Apps.gov, announced today. What we are seeing is the consumerization (the G-to-C, i.e., govt-to-citizen) of federal data and web services, following the B-to-C (business-to-consumer) model of the dot-com era. In fact, a major "Government 2.0" event last week in the capital featured many such applications, as we've written about http://guengerich.wordpress.com. It's a very smart play by the current administration, providing a way for the Net Gen a chance to shift their energies from campaign to governance. However, I predict, just as with B-to-C, G-to-C will run ahead of the G-to-G (or govt to govt, i.e., intra- and inter-agency) applications that we can expect to see. The challenges of shifting large-scale, enterprise systems, cultures, and processes in the distributed federal bureaucracy are enormous and must happen from within. The Obama administration (even if you give it 7 more years) can only get a start at this change, with efforts like Apps.gov. No doubt, it will happen and I love the bold direction. But like all such changes (the internet included), people tend to vastly over-estimate the speed at which such transformative change will take place, but likewise underestimate the far-reaching scale and duration of the transformative change, once it takes hold and becomes the norm. Good luck to Vivek, Casey, Aneesh, and the many others who are working hard to drive these changes through our federal IT infrastructure.
We knew it was a matter of "if" not "when" - applause to the "Kundra corps" for making more easily available to us the data that we, as citizens, have already paid for with our taxes, via Data.gov, and now stretching our taxpayer dollars further through the GSA-backed Apps.gov, announced today. What we are seeing is the consumerization (the G-to-C, i.e., govt-to-citizen) of federal data and web services, following the B-to-C (business-to-consumer) model of the dot-com era. In fact, a major "Government 2.0" event last week in the capital featured many such applications, as we've written about http://guengerich.wordpress.com. It's a very smart play by the current administration, providing a way for the Net Gen a chance to shift their energies from campaign to governance. However, I predict, just as with B-to-C, G-to-C will run ahead of the G-to-G (or govt to govt, i.e., intra- and inter-agency) applications that we can expect to see. The challenges of shifting large-scale, enterprise systems, cultures, and processes in the distributed federal bureaucracy are enormous and must happen from within. The Obama administration (even if you give it 7 more years) can only get a start at this change, with efforts like Apps.gov. No doubt, it will happen and I love the bold direction. But like all such changes (the internet included), people tend to vastly over-estimate the speed at which such transformative change will take place, but likewise underestimate the far-reaching scale and duration of the transformative change, once it takes hold and becomes the norm. Good luck to Vivek, Casey, Aneesh, and the many others who are working hard to drive these changes through our federal IT infrastructure.
We knew it was a matter of "if" not "when" - applause to the "Kundra corps" for making more easily available to us the data that we, as citizens, have already paid for with our taxes, via Data.gov, and now stretching our taxpayer dollars further through the GSA-backed Apps.gov, announced today. What we are seeing is the consumerization (the G-to-C, i.e., govt-to-citizen) of federal data and web services, following the B-to-C (business-to-consumer) model of the dot-com era. In fact, a major "Government 2.0" event last week in the capital featured many such applications, as we've written about http://guengerich.wordpress.com. It's a very smart play by the current administration, providing a way for the Net Gen a chance to shift their energies from campaign to governance. However, I predict, just as with B-to-C, G-to-C will run ahead of the G-to-G (or govt to govt, i.e., intra- and inter-agency) applications that we can expect to see. The challenges of shifting large-scale, enterprise systems, cultures, and processes in the distributed federal bureaucracy are enormous and must happen from within. The Obama administration (even if you give it 7 more years) can only get a start at this change, with efforts like Apps.gov. No doubt, it will happen and I love the bold direction. But like all such changes (the internet included), people tend to vastly over-estimate the speed at which such transformative change will take place, but likewise underestimate the far-reaching scale and duration of the transformative change, once it takes hold and becomes the norm. Good luck to Vivek, Casey, Aneesh, and the many others who are working hard to drive these changes through our federal IT infrastructure.