D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has named Bryan Sivak, a founder of the Silicon Valley company InQuira, as his new chief technology officer, both D.C. Wire and City Desk are reporting. Sivak, 34, was introduced for the first time by the mayor at a press conference at city hall this morning. The nominee takes over for interim chief Chris Willey, who had been tasked with minding the OCTO ship since the departure of Vivek Kundra, who…

At the beginning of February, D.C.’s Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, was reportedly the choice of the Obama administration as the new Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and information technology. But this morning he’s been bumped up, with an announcement from President Obama that Kundra will become the nation’s first Federal Chief Information Officer. “Vivek Kundra will bring a depth of experience in the technology arena and a commitment to lowering…

Good morning, D.C. If by any chance you’re a contractor with the city, you may be in for a rude awakening this morning, as City Manager Dan “The Man” Tangherlini and Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra have ordered your cell phone to be returned. Apparently some non-employee contractors have been getting a pretty sweet deal from the District for some time in the form of free cell phones, the end of which will save the…

Sitting at your desk, bored, thinking it’s high time to find a new job? Mayor Fenty is hosting a Citywide Job Fair at the Washington Convention Center today, and you’ve still got a few more hours to stop by before it closes up shop at 4 p.m. Head over with a stack of resumes, and apply for D.C. city government jobs like these: >> Paralegal Specialist in the Office of the D.C. Attorney General >>…

They may be short on books, under-staffed, and generally depressing, but the District’s public libraries are now all Wi-Fi hotspots. In late May the Georgetown branch announced it was the first public library in the city to offer free Wi-Fi, and now the remaining 20 branches and Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library will similarly do so. The District’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the D.C. Public Library’s Information and Telecommunications Office worked…