Here's an interesting wheeze posted today by the Chief Information Officer of the
'Today, I am excited to announce that we have launched Apps.gov to help continue the President's initiative to lower the cost of government operations while driving innovation within government', says Vivek Kundra, the US CIO, 'Apps.gov is an online storefront for federal agencies to quickly browse and purchase cloud-based IT services, for productivity, collaboration, and efficiency.'
Kundra says the
No.10 Downing Street could follow President Barack Obama onto The Cloud and provide some efficiency-boosting, cost-saving Apps for the
An App to calculate the cost of an aircraft carrier
An App to identify paedophiles working near children.
An App for Councils to fairly calculate the Community Charge.
An App to monitor MPs' expenses.
An App to track suspected terrorists.
An App to monitor academic progress in schools.
An App to link government R&D budgets to existing and proposed R&D projects.
To my mind, Kundra is on to something here.
so the difference between a government and a business is what?
One takes your money and delivers BS, Peter, the other takes your money.