[cjoh]

I've worked with Vivek Kundra a bit with his very revolutionary "Apps for Democracy" contest. The guy really gets it. He's smart and understands the power of openness and involving the outside for helping Government.

An interesting thing about him: when coming into power here in DC one of his first mandates was "District Government will operate off of the same data we make available to the public."

As such, remarkably, public data feeds coming out of the district got significantly better, more organized and more available.

Sounds obvious, but it was a big step for even a municipal Government to take.