May 23, 2012 08:48 pm GMT
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US CTO Todd Park: Obama Has A Very High Geek Quotient, But Its All A Means To An End
President Barack Obama is famous for his affinity for his BlackBerryand science fairs, but the tech love goes a lot further than that. Todd Park, the U.S. chief technology officer, today described the President as having a "very high geek quotient" with a "go go go" attitude when it comes to new tech initiatives -- which, yes, he likes in and of themselves, but more importantly as a means to an end.The comments were made during a fireside chat atTC Disrupt in New York,where Park along with U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel also announced the government's big plans for opening up its data and courting developers.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TUirpCCJvMw/
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