{"id":6,"date":"2009-12-16T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/?p=6"},"modified":"2024-01-11T18:21:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T23:21:01","slug":"great-government-through-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/2009\/12\/16\/great-government-through-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Government through Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_revolution\">Digital Revolution<\/a>\u00a0is dramatically changing the way we live, the way we work, and the way that the American government is serving its constituents; I think for the better.\u00a0\u00a0Almost every day, I hear about exciting new technologies or innovations with the potential to produce changes in the way government serves and interacts with citizens.\u00a0 The rapid pace of these technological changes &#8211; and the ability to harness them effectively &#8211; is one of the biggest challenges facing government today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The government has already made great strides in improving the way it distributes information, provides services and communicates with the American people.\u00a0That is why I am especially proud to be leading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsa.gov\/itsabout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of Integrated Technology Services (ITS)<\/a>\u00a0within <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsa.gov\/fas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GSA&#8217;s Federal Acquisition Service.<\/a>\u00a0We help government agencies execute their core mission by making it easier for them to acquire the latest in technology products, services and solutions.\u00a0 That is what I mean when you hear me talking about &#8220;Great Government through Technology&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I started as Assistant Commissioner of ITS in April.\u00a0 Over the past several months, I have focused on helping our customer agencies implement the administration\u2019s IT priorities, including cyber security, sustainability and innovation.\u00a0 But one of the things I am particularly thrilled about is the increased emphasis on government collaboration and communication.\u00a0 That is why I am happy to be making the first of many postings on this blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I plan to post here frequently. This space will be used to tell you about trends that I see in the marketplace, my focus here at ITS and important initiatives.\u00a0 But most of all, I want to hear back from YOU!\u00a0 I will be looking out for your comments and topic suggestions, and though I won\u2019t be able to respond to everyone, I will do my best to keep the communication two-way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Looking forward to hearing from all of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Revolution\u00a0is dramatically changing the way we live, the way we work, and the way that the American government is serving its constituents; I think for the better.\u00a0\u00a0Almost every day, I hear about exciting new technologies or innovations with the potential to produce changes in the way government serves and interacts with citizens.\u00a0 The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/2009\/12\/16\/great-government-through-technology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Government through Technology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19185,19152,19176,19184,4486],"tags":[22976,11,9,12,8,10],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-hardware","category-it-security","category-it-services","category-it-software","category-telecommunications","tag-governmentwide","tag-gwac","tag-it-schedule-70","tag-networx","tag-schedule-70","tag-smartbuy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsablogs.gsa.gov\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}