be one of them. clay johnson is the ceo of the department of better technology and author of the information diet. also a former presidential innovation fellow, the same group that the administration is now bringing in to help troubleshoot healthcare.gov. so nice to have you today, clay. thanks for having me. so just in the simplest terms that even nerds can understand, even though we are not geeks, what is wrong with this site? well, it s an interesting question. a lot has gone wrong with the site. the first thing that s wrong with it is clearly the people who made it aren t very good at programming. you know, any programmer, if you ve ever opened a web browser, sometimes if you just sort of explore the menus there s this menu item called view source, and you can click on that and actually see some of the cold that s running inside of healthcare.gov or any website that you go to. any developer that s looked inside of the source of at least the front end of healthcare.gov
now to fix the site. he s the ceo of the company department of better technology and author of the information diet. great to see you. thanks for coming in. you know the system better than most. in the simplest terms possible, because i include myself in this group, not understanding i.t. very well, what went wrong? the first thing that went wrong, a lot went wrong. the first thing that went wrong has been that we ve continued to use a system which is broken. when the federal government buys information technology, they use a system called procurement and they deal with contracting officers who have to go out and negotiate with vendors and the result are these very large information technology projects. computer world magazine came out yesterday and said they did a study on federal i.t. projects that were over $10 million and found that 96% of them fail. so if 96% of something fails,
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