Prolific blogger Robert Scoble has been blogging about whether America needs to have its own Chief Technical Officer. His vote would go to Larry Lessig which makes sense.
It's the sort of role we could do with in the UK, what with the NHS computer chaos, data leakages including the latest PA Consulting debacle, and the seemingly haphazard approach to IT in schools.
Not sure who would be best suited to it let alone want to undertake the task. My vote would probably go to someone like Ross Anderson who strikes me as someone who understands the complexities of this stuff, or even Richard Susskind who is currently IT adviser to the Lord Chief Justice. Anyone else got any ideas?
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