Modernizing Congress: Congress limps along with a technological handicap

While technology is embraced nearly everywhere, Congress is still a paper-based institution. Seamus Kraft is among those working to expose Congress’ technolog...

Modernizing Congress - Seamus Kraft, founder and executive director of Opengov Foundation

Ask the average person what’s wrong with Congress, and you’ll get a lot of answers. But one big problem with Congress is mostly invisible to people who don’t work on Capitol Hill. That’s the sorry state of its information technology. And it’s not because of a lack of spending on IT. That’s according to a study done by the OpenGov Foundation. Joining me with more, executive director Seamus Kraft.

 

This is part one of a three part special report on Modernizing Congress. Read the rest of the report here.

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