Fed CTO Aneesh Chopra: Building a Digital Commonwealth

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Partners:: Gov 2.0 Summit,; O'Reilly Media
Location:: Grand Hyatt
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 09.09.09
Speakers:: Aneesh Chopra,; Tim O'Reilly
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Summary: Sounding a Web 2.0 theme 250 years ago, Benjamin Franklin spoke of the power of doing good by collective action for public benefit.

In this far-reaching conversation, Tim O'Reilly explores with new Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra his ideas for harnessing technology to build a digital commonwealth and a digital nation, a new model for cooperation between citizens and their government.

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Aneesh Chopra

Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chief Technology Officer and in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy. He works to advance the President�s technology agenda by fostering new ideas and encouraging government-wide coordination to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland. He was sworn in on May 22nd, 2009. Prior to his appointment, he served as Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia from January 2006 until April 2009. He previously served as Managing Director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly-traded healthcare think tank. Chopra was named to Government Technology magazine�s Top 25 in their Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers issue in 2008. Aneesh Chopra received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and his M.P.P. from Harvard�s Kennedy School.

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference.

O'Reilly's blog, the O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. O'Reilly is on the boards of MySQL, CollabNet, Safari Books Online, Wesabe, and ValuesOfN, and is a partner in O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.