Le dashboard de Vivek Kundra

Superbe IT dashboard que vient de lancer le gouvernement américain pour permettre au public de suivre les dépenses dans les projets TI (l'article du NY Times). Un autre exemple d'ouverture des données.

Mise à jour 14 sept 2009 : le site semble avoir quelques détracteurs et quelques problèmes.

Vivek Kundra, CIO du gouvernement, 34 ans, est à la tête de ce projet. Cet homme semble avoir une très bonne tête et une perspective fort intéressante selon cette entrevue.

I usually point to three areas in terms of what we are doing here. It starts with a shift in philosophical thinking, but there are three pillars. First, there is the question of how you lower the cost of government operations by moving toward consumer technologies rather than technologies focused within the enterprise. What I mean by that is, for too long the public sector has thought for some reason that it's so special that it must have custom applications, it must have radios for the public safety unit that cost $6,000 a piece, it must have applications targeted for the enterprise. And the government chooses to pay for things that it can get for free.

Second, there is the question of how you drive radical transparency in the public sector. We are doing that by democratizing data and opening up the warehouse of government information to the public so people can innovate; they can slice, dice and cube that data to create amazing and creative applications for citizens and government.

And the third big pillar has to do with how you fundamentally rethink IT governance. What I'm doing with IT governance essentially is simplifying it, getting away from complicated methodologies, and getting more focused on process rather than outcome. Here we've moved to a simple "stock market" model where every technology project is treated as a publicly traded stock.