DC increases transparency with Google Apps

[lovedthepurplejacket]

The information in this video is incongruous & contradictory

[flintbrenick]

@lovedthepurplejacket Can you give us some examples of what you mean?

[matwocents]

Practiced in the public square? Umm, at no point did they say anyone other than those employees in those agencies would be able to see the documents. That's what I don't get. It's not transparent to the public, only to these interrelated agencies in DC. The entire world could be on these systems, and the public would not be better off. They still have habits of wasting money on excessive wars. This won't help you or me, faced with a federal gov't notorious for wasting money.

[flintbrenick]

@matwocents Well they have to start somewhere when it comes to saving money. I don't feel like finding all the news articles for you but if you look on Google's blog and some of their youtube videos, they show how most government agencies save over 55% when they which to cloud computing such as Google Docs. And since the US spends over $75B on IT, cutting the cost by over half sounds like a good starting point to me.

[dexter112358]

Good for Washington. They will be saving money that can be used to help the nation.

[Proverbs3verse5]

"DC increases transparency" but what about the murder rate that's still at 400 annually, the open air drug markets, and the unrelenting corruption. Transparency??? Then why for the last 20 years does the DC government hinder and falsely report the actual crime statistics???????

[flintbrenick]

@Proverbs3verse5 They can use Google Maps along with some APIs and a Google Docs spreadsheet and show on the map when different murders take place. I believe LA (or some city is California) already does this.

[jrgenter]

Hi everybody !!! where's george ??

[whitfieldyt]

Errr... What happens when Google fails to meet the needs of DC's public offices?

I am perplexed. Is this a joke?  Fire departments depending on Google Earth's update latency to know whether or not a fire hydrant is operational? What?!

What happens when some emerging requirement is not efficiently facilitated by Google? What then?

<3 Google, but...

Someone hop on Google Earth and find me a local ER; also need to arrange for a taxi pickup at my apartment... I'm starting to hyperventilate.

[whitfieldyt]

Excuse my failure to connect the dots here. The example used regarding fire hydrants is actually explained later in the video (KML).

Oh the sorrow I feel for hastily judging my government's use of my beloved Google.

I am sure you two will work it out just fine!

[washdc2009]

As for Kundra tenure at OCTO, his achievements are non-existent. I wonder if anyone ever talked

to people who worked for Kundra. He was despised by his staff and the lower-level employees. Google Apps

was never fully rolled out to all District agencies. Many of his projects were simply in the planning

stages. None ever were ever completed.

[dangercynic]

Why did Obama had to choose this curry Indian.I hope Obama fails and gets impeached.

[macewan]

I can't tell you how refreshing this is after 8 years of cave man Bush and the knuckle dragging crew leader Dick Cheney.

[NetDialect]

"And it's all within the domain of the District of Columbia so it's all good!" Wow! Eviiil. What about folks in the U.S. government posting confidential information to "The Cloud" a.ka. Google's servers? The proprietary information just lives happily on Googles servers? Is this guy insane?! The keys to the kingdom are now in Google's hands??? I don't like this.

[IlonaG]

Sorry, my daughter just told me that I sounded creepy. LOL. I remember you as a baby and a little boy. :)

[IlonaG]

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[krs225]

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~Proud Sis :-)