Executive Branch 2.0

By Robert Laurence
FederalNewsRadio.com

The incoming Obama administration is facing a delicate balancing act of utilizing IT assets while protecting sensitive information and networks. As difficult as this is, Jock Gill, former Director of Special Projects in the Office of Media Affairs in the Clinton White House and the man credited with implementing the first White House website, envisions an IT revolution under President-elect Barack Obama that could change the way all future administrations make decisions.

Gill tells FederalNewsRadio that the Obama team’s use of network technology during the presidential campaign is an indication of things to come.

“I commend the Obama team for their very successful use of network technology and using the network to enhance traditional shoe leather networking,” Gill says.

Gill explains that this use of network technology leads to an important question.

“How are we going to develop new network approaches that allow us to successfully acquire that huge flow of data and turn it into useful information, knowledge and wisdom that we can act on?” Gill asks.

The question, Gill believes, was answered during the presidential campaign.

“It seems to me that they have shown already in the campaign that technology enhanced networks are better at processing information, or processing data to convert it into actionable information, than traditional hierarchical organizations,” Gill says.

Using this more efficient way of dealing with information, Gill predicts the Obama administration will create a streamlined process to deal with increasing amounts of information with greater efficiency than any previous administration.

“I will be looking to see leadership from the Obama team on developing new organizational styles and techniques or principles, paradigms, that will allow us to more rapidly, more successfully, work with this incredible flow of new data,” Gill explains.

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