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Clay Johnson

"Redesigning the Government"

We're in for a heap of trouble. Government cannot acquire technology as quickly and as affordably as the private sector can. If Moore's law dictates that technology's pace is exponential, and there's that friction between government and the private sector, how much longer is it until we're driving flying cars and government is chasing us with buicks?

The solution starts with redesigning the way government buys.

About Clay Johnson:

Clay Johnson is best known as the co-founder of Blue State Digital, the firm that built and managed Barack Obama’s online campaign for the presidency in 2008. After leaving Blue State, Johnson was the director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, where he built an army of 2000 developers and designers to build open source tools to give people greater access to government data. He was awarded the Google/O’Reilly Open Source Organizer of the year in 2009, was one of Federal Computing Week’s Fed 100 in 2010, and won the CampaignTech Innovator award in 2011.