DC City Government

The DC government employs over 30,000 people and has to coordinate its activities closely with external entities (federal government, business community, non-profit service providers, citizens...). In an effort to reduce costs, the city CTO has already begun to look at providers such as Google gMail, to provide some of its offerings . Further, many services are funded by the government, but provided by for profit and non-profit service providers though vouchers. This requires close coordination in addition to the ability to maintain confidential records. Google and Microsoft's entry into the electronic medical records segment also has implications for government. Given the number of functions a government covers I may ask to restrict my recommendations to one department-level entity.