Syndicated Image from Shutterstock.com Careers Leadership Public Sector Brits do IT better: White House CTO Nestor E. Arellano @NestorArellano Published: April 22nd, 2015The government of the United Kingdom is years ahead of that of the United States in adopting new technology, according to Megan Smith, chief technology officer of the U.S. government.Formerly the vice-president for business development at Google Inc., Smith was appointed U.S. CTO by President Barack Obama in September last year. Related Link : Should Canada look to U.K.’s G-Cloud for cloud computing pointers? At the recent Building the Business of Civic Tech conference in New York, Smith held up the U.K. as a model of digital government. Megan SmithShe commended the British government for incorporating computer science into its national school curriculum as well as launching an online marketplace for cloud services.Britain’s G-Cloud program, which serves as a platform where government agencies and departments can shop for cloud computing services, was established back in 2012. Since then more than 1,200 cloud providers have signed up with the marketplace. No less than 13,000 services are being offered in G-Cloud and sales have grown in excess of $70 million.The U.K. recently convened D5, a G8-style summit of digital governments that include New Zealand, Estonia, South Korea and Israel. Related Articles Federal budget leaves IT sector players wanting more Federal budget to boost CSIS cyber security powers The digital governance dilemma Canada’s public sector must confront Smith is optimistic that the U.S. will soon become part of the group.She noted that she is seeing hackathons held in places like the Department of Interior. The U.S. also has a new government digital services called 18F Digital Service Delivery and the government is installing a tech team inside every government agency to promote innovation.Read the whole story here Original Article Source Careers, Leadership, Public Sector CTO, e-government initiatives, U.K. government