Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology

Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Tech­no­logy:

One mem­ber of the White House new-media team came to work on Tues­day, right after the swearing-in cere­mony, only to dis­cover that it was impossible to know which pro­grams could be updated, or even which com­puters could be used for which purposes.

No Instant Mes­sen­gers. No Face­book. A week to get a com­puter and a Black­berry. No laptops! Com­puters that have indi­vidual pur­poses? This is going to be a pain­ful trans­ition from a very internet-savvy cam­paign. Hope­fully they will gain the abil­ity to change the White House bur­eau­cracy — while the Pres­id­en­tial Records Act is import­ant, it can’t be bey­ond the abil­ity of people to have a White House IT infra­struc­ture suit­able for the Inter­net Age.

(Via The Wash­ing­ton Post.)