Washington DC in the Clouds

Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer of Washington, D.C. continues to demonstrate why he is the "The Entrepreneur" as appropriately named by Public CIO magazine. Kundra continues to embrace innovative technologies  when he signed a contract with Google enabling city workers to use Google's web-based e-mail, spreadsheet and word-processing programs. This recent deal with Google demonstrates a move to a low-cost solution to improve government operations and citizen-service delivery. It will be interesting to see if other public sector jurisdictions deploy similar web-based applications.

Google Docs is a free web-based tool that allows people to work, collaborate and share word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.