Kundra has been consistently critical of the government's pace of technology adoption, faulting it in 2009 for not moving to cloud services or social network-like platforms for information sharing. "We don't' have a single platform that allows you to do that," he said.

Kundra has been cloud computing, IT consolidation, and other steps to modernize government technology platforms.

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