{"id":7973,"date":"2018-01-05T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statescoop.scpnewsgrp.com\/d-c-appoints-chief-data-officer-as-interim-cto-replacement\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:19:47","slug":"d-c-appoints-chief-data-officer-as-interim-cto-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/d-c-appoints-chief-data-officer-as-interim-cto-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. appoints chief data officer as interim CTO replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington D.C., has announced an interim chief technology officer to serve in the place of outgoing CTO\u00a0Archana Vemulapalli.<\/p>\n

Friday is\u00a0Vemulapalli’s last day and her duties will be passed on to the city’s chief data officer,\u00a0Barney Krucoff, who will officially take\u00a0the new role\u00a0Jan. 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since 2016, Krucoff has served as the city’s first chief data officer. Before that he served in roles as a geographic information officer\u00a0for both\u00a0the State of\u00a0Maryland and Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

A devout open data advocate, Krucoff became D.C.’s CDO to fulfill Mayor Muriel Bowser’s desire to increase transparency and accessibility to the District’s catalog\u00a0of\u00a0data. Under Vemulapalli, Krucoff has helped lead these efforts through\u00a0data projects while overseeing a team of\u00a026 staff.<\/p>\n

Krucoff’s work can be found in the roll out of DC’s open by default data policy<\/a>, which requires departments to make data publicly accessible whenever possible. Krucoff helped coordinate the launch of DC’s data group, The Lab @ DC<\/a>,\u00a0which is using predictive analytics to fight rodent infestations<\/a>\u00a0among other challenges. Krucoff has also worked with Bloomberg Philanthropies in its What Works Cities program\u00a0that is designed cultivate cities’ use of\u00a0data.<\/p>\n

In a smart cities panel on Dec. 12<\/a> organized by the\u00a0Center for Data Innovation, Krucoff said that one of OCTO’s key smart city projects\u00a0is the expansion of free public WiFi on the city’s fiber network.<\/p>\n

“We’re continuing to build this out, which is a way of crossing the digital divide,” Krucoff said in the panel. “It’s in all of our libraries and if you go to the swimming pool at the recreation center you’ve got Wi-Fi. We will pursue that and it also could bring back data from sensors, so having this as a backbone is very important.”<\/p>\n

Other projects where Krucoff will invest his time include\u00a0a number of smart city and civic tech projects like PA2040, an innovation zone for agencies to test new Internet of Things\u00a0and other\u00a0emerging technologies, and the city’s Startup in Residence program<\/a>\u00a0that pairs tech startups with agencies to solve city challenges. Data, he said, will be at the heart of all of OCTO’s work going forward.<\/p>\n

“How we’re going to adjust our processes to this new data is really the big question that we face,” Krucoff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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