US Government Sets Up Online "App Store"

krapper writes "The Obama administration has unveiled a government 'app store' designed to push the federal bureaucracy into the era of cloud computing. The change means some federal employees will begin using services like YouTube, Gmail and WordPress, which store data on private internet servers instead of on those paid for with public money. The process will start small but will ramp up quickly, Vivek Kundra, the US chief information officer, said in a blog post on Tuesday. 'Our policies lag behind new trends, causing unnecessary restrictions on the use of new technology,' Kundra writes in the post on WhiteHouse.gov. 'We are dedicated to addressing these barriers and to improving the way government leverages new technology.' The app store is designed for federal employees doing official government business and is not intended for use by the public."

Cloud services

[Anonymous Coward]

federal employees will begin using services like YouTube, Gmail and WordPress

Maybe this means Joe Wilson can troll 4chan instead.

Need to audit an American?

[93 Escort Wagon]

There's an app for that.

Giovernment App Store? Cool!

[ahodgkinson]

Fantastic. An App Store puts democracy back into the hands of the ordinary citizen.

In fact, I think open an account right now, and buy myself a congressman.

Re:The Term 'App Store' is Becoming Over Used

[syousef]

Agreed. This seems to be more of an official non-classified download repository than anything else. If I were in a small business and called their samba share that had the install images of Office, Acrobat, and other licensed packages for internal use an "app store", I'd be looked at by their IT people like I was some troll or pirate.

A+++++++++++++++ commenter. Would read again!

Re:The Term 'App Store' is Becoming Over Used

[mcgrew]

They need lots of bullshit to fertilize their money trees.

AEM Signed Into Law

[WED Fan]

The Aconynm Elimination Mandate (AEM) was signed by the President's APP, and will be over seen by the OMB. The PTG is the TLA category to be followed by the FLA groups. The GOP oppoosition to the AEM headed by the OMB states that if the AEM is successful, millions of OGD (Official Government Documents) will be rendered unreadable.

Re:Oh come on, you are being rediculous

[99BottlesOfBeerInMyF]

Unless they take pictures of their own swimsuit parts. That makes them evil!

Swimsuit parts? Like straps and that mesh lining stuff?