The 2009 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers have star power, but arguably none more so than Vivek Kundra, the CTO of Washington, D.C. Since he was named CTO in 2007, he has become recognized as an innovative leader who relishes the opportunity to “democratize” data.
“My first approach coming into the public sector here in D.C. was to take as much data and put it out in the public domain as possible. I had three goals in mind: No. 1 was to drive transparency; No. 2 was to engage citizens; No. 3 was to ensure that we were lowering the cost of government operations,” Kundra said.