D.C.’s Tech Czar

Interesting story in today’s Washington Post about Vivek Kundra, the CTO for Washington, D.C.  The D.C. government has long been a bastion of bureaucracy, ineptitude, laziness, and backward thinking, so it’s encouraging that someone with some vision is pushing the tech side forward.

As a native Washingtonian, the passage that impressed me most was the part about Kundra and his colleagues emailing each other at 2 in the morning to discuss policy details.  This is almost certainly the first time the Post has ever reported on D.C. officials doing anything at 2 a.m. that didn’t involve a drug deal or a dead body.