UK.gov CIO speaks out on sheep and clouds
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The government chief information officer is eating his own dog food by getting involved in a discussion of cloud computing on Google groups.
The cloud computing interoperability forum was discussing the implications of plans for government-created nationwide cloud computing - that government departments would use cloud computing as a way to extend shared services.
So far so dull but then up popped John Suffolk - the UK government's chief information officer. He said moves to the "G-Cloud" would be based on getting standard desktop designs, sorting out telecoms infrastructure, data centres and pushing more open source and open standard technology. Suffolk said this would all help move towards a Government App Store, as long as European procurement laws could be satisfied.
The post was warmly welcomed by other contributors but did raise a little suspicion.
Does the UK government's CIO really have an email address that points at a website devoted to rare breed sheep?
Well a quick call to the Cabinet Office reveals that yes it does.
When not sorting out government technology problems John Suffolk is a keen breeder of rare sheep - especially Soay and Boreray sheep.
In fact the Cabinet Office press officer had got hold of Suffolk while he tended his flock in order to check that he was indeed contributing to online discussions of cloud computing.
For more on the CIO's sheep go here.®
COMMENTS
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"That said, what about security?" .... By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 19th June 2009 23:05 GMT.
In a Transparency is Security always Guaranteed and Provided against Maladministration and Corrupt and Sinister Practice, by Virtue of Open Declaration of Intent with Supporting IT Content for Subsequent Applications/Theatres of Operations.
Building an Operation on a False Prospectus/Imaginary Inventory and Running up Crippling Debts for Foreign Invoicing with a Death and Destruction Delivery Program for Puppet Society Rebuild/Care and Maintenance/Entrapment is a Perverse Ruse, which has no Friends and does not Play Well with Others.
Quite why any other than the hopelessly insane and certifiably mad would be party to any of that sort of enterprise, is a sad and valid indictment of the low level of human intelligence, and especially that of the slower witted male of the species.
I've only got one question
At last it can be asked - do Government CIOs dream of electric sheep ?
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