Kundra, former CIO for the US, believes in transparency and cloud computing. Photo: Rich Clement When US President Obama first took office in November 2008, he challenged the inaugural US Government chief information officer Vivek Kundra to hit the...

Kundra, the former White House CIO and author of the Obama government’s Cloud First policy, today told a Sydney audience comprised largely of chief information officers and C-level executives including NBN head honcho Mike Quigley, that he left the US...

Five years ago, when Kaine, who was to lead the high-powered Virginia trade delegation to India had to cry off at the last minute due to the Virginia Tech tragedy where several students and faculty were massacred by a lone gunman, Chopra led the...

The departure of Chopra comes just months after U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra left his post. They served as the federal government’s first CTO and CIO, respectively. The two were also something of a pair, as they previously worked...

Orszag left to take a job with Citigroup. President Obama has the distinction of appointing the most number of Indian-Americans to key positions in his administration. But some of these officials have also quit. They include Aneesh Chopra, the US...

Last yeat his deputy, Beth Noveck left, followed a few months later by the US federal CIO Vivek Kundra. With Aneesh leaving, none of the minds behind the directive is left in office. Officially, this does not mean anything: Beth has been replaced by...