Hey, the folks listed in Washingtonian's Washington's Tech Titans really are a big deal, I've seen this first hand.
UPDATE: there are a number of folks not included in this list who should be, like Bev Godwin, Beth Noveck, Andrew Rasiej, Micah Sifry, Katie Stanton, and I'm sure I'm forgetting others.
That includes a lot of people doing a lot of good stuff, like:
Vivek Kundra, White House CIO. The former DC chief technology officer—who, through his Apps for Democracy contest, demonstrated the power of opening up government data streams to programmers—is now leading the Obama administration’s eGov efforts.
Ellen Miller, cofounder and executive director, Sunlight Foundation. Working with Clay Johnson, head of Sunlight’s Labs division, Miller is a leader in government transparency online, a watchword of the Obama administration.
Macon Phillips, White House director of new media. Whether Phillips will be able to drag the White House’s antiquated technology into the 21st century remains a question, but his mission is to transform the way the President interacts with the public.
Joe Rospars, founding partner, Blue State Digital. The former Howard Dean blogger who served as the Obama campaign’s new-media chief now has more business than he knows what to do with at his consulting tech firm.
Joe Trippi, principal, Trippi and Associates. The pioneering political Web guru understands the future better than any other political consultant.
Andy Carvin, social-media strategist, National Public Radio. As NPR reinvents itself for the Internet age—its new CEO, Vivian Schiller, was head of NYTimes.com—one of the leading voices will be its own social-media guru and prolific Twitterer.
Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google; Steve Crocker, board member, iCANN; and Bob Kahn, CEO, Corporation for National Research Initiatives. These three men, all key players in the development of the Internet a generation ago and thus credited with being “Internet cofounders,” continue to play major roles in technology development here.
Peter Corbett, founder, TwinTech; Frank Gruber, cofounder, Tech Cocktail; and Justin Thorp, community manager, Clearspring. These three rising stars are playing a key role in strengthening the community ties of the diverse Washington tech world through their online outreach and offline social gatherings.
Michael Nelson, visiting professor, Georgetown University. The former FCC technology director spent years as IBM’s director of Internet technology and strategy and, as a Senate staffer in the early 1990s, helped push through the groundbreaking High-Performance Computing Act.
Steve Case, chairman and CEO, Revolution. His Revolution Health venture has never achieved the prominence he hoped for, but the AOL cofounder remains a major force in the region through his investments, ideas, and talented network of partners and former staff.
Reed Hundt, senior adviser, McKinsey & Company. The longtime Intel director was FCC chairman under President Bill Clinton—and the first at the commission to have a computer at his desk. He now splits his time among McKinsey, the investment outfits Charles Ross Partners and the Blackstone Group, and Yale.
Sheila Campbell, manager, General Services Administration’s USA.gov. After years in the shadows, Campbell is helping her fellow federal Web managers shine with their newly elevated importance in the Obama administration.
Aneesh Chopra, Virginia Secretary of Technology. A surprise appointment to Tim Kaine’s administration in 2005 because he hadn’t served in government and didn’t come from the tech world, Chopra got involved when he was managing director of the Advisory Board Company.
Julius Genachowski, chair designate, Federal Communications Commission. The appointment of Genachowski, a veteran of the DC venture-capital world, was a strong signal to techies that the Obama administration is going to elevate and engage with technology policy.
Leslie Harris, president and CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology. CDT finds itself at the nexus of emerging issues around privacy, government spying, and Internet technology, so it’s lucky for civil libertarians that Harris knows the new administration’s movers and shakers well.
(Hey, did I leave out anyone?)
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