Lindsay Holst

President Barack Obama has asked US Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President Todd Park to take on a new role for the Administration as a technology advisor based in Silicon Valley.

Park will begin the new role in September after he and his family have returned home to California.

Park’s focus will be recruiting more top tech talent like Mikey Dickerson into government and identifying innovative ways to improve the quality of government digital services, two central goals of the President’s Smarter IT Delivery agenda. He will also help ensure that the Administration has an on-the-ground sense of how technology is evolving and can craft policy and initiatives accordingly.

Moving forward, Mikey Dickerson, Administrator of the newly created US Digital Service, will draw on 13 key "plays" drawn from private and public-sector best practices that, used together, will help government agencies provide services that won't only work better for users -- they'll take less time and money to operate.

Follow along as Dickerson makes his way through Day One.