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Google boss is Government’s CTO

by on05 September 2014

Megan Smith has to improve things

Google executive Megan Smith has been tapped to be the US government's new CTO, in charge of improving technology and the use of data across agencies.

Smith, formerly vice president of new business development at Google, bought the world Google Earth, Maps and Picasa. Smith will have to come up with the Obama administration's IT policy and initiatives and pushing advanced technology adoption across the US economy.

She recently served as vice president at Google's tech lab, Google[x) and was the CEO of PlanetOut, helped design early smartphone technologies at General Magic and worked on multimedia products at Apple Japan in Tokyo.

Also on Thursday, the White House named Alexander Macgillivray, a former general counsel and head of public policy at Twitter, as deputy U.S. CTO.

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