Finnur Palmi Magnusson aka Gommit

I have touched on this topic a few times and this tweet from Geir linking to Obama's idea for an US CTO sparked a short Googling session with the following results.

Denmark has had an IT minister since 2001. The ministry is responsible for the following areas: Research, Information technology (IT), Innovation, Telecommunications, University educations.

In the UK we have a CIO and a council "ensuring that IT supports the business transformation of Government itself so that we can provide better, more efficient, public services".

In Iceland we published a report (only in Icelandic) and set up a commitee (like we always do when we need things to go away). It's more like a project management group with members from 6 ministries.

I think we need a cool CTO. Any ideas?

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