I'm apparently a broken record today - but Jennifer Pahlka (founder of Code for America) recently did a talk at the Long Now Foundation about this topic. Huge n

I'm apparently a broken record today - but Jennifer Pahlka (founder of Code for America) recently did a talk at the Long Now Foundation about this topic. Huge numbers are quoted for (relatively) limited government technology initiatives, but a great deal gets wasted - or otherwise inefficiently allocated - due to how procurement rules are written. If this topic interests you, I highly recommend that you listen to her experiences working to fix government technology creation by bringing in modern development practices.