>From /.:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1725247/Outgoing-Federal-CIO-Warns-of-IT-Cartel-In-DC""In a wide-ranging discussion Friday with President Barack Obama's
top science advisors, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra warned of the dangers
of open data access and was sharply critical of government IT
contracting, telling the committee: '...We almost have an IT cartel
within federal IT' made up of very few companies that benefit from
government spending 'because they understand the procurement process
better than anyone else.' He added: 'It's not because they provide
better technology.'""
Original story:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218466/Outgoing_federal_CIO_warns_of_an_IT_cartel_My experience is that a very similar situation exists in the
government of Canada (I had a 15+ year career there).
And this situation also stands in the way of Open Source / Open Data /
Open Government.
Actually it is worse than that: it obfuscates these efforts by
claiming it is doing them while actually doing the opposite.
-glen
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