This new video from Change.gov is a look at how the Obama-Biden Transition Project’s TIGR (Technology, Innovation and Government Reform) team is planning to use technology once the new administration takes office. We’ve already seen their handiwork in features on Change.gov like the Citizen’s Briefing Book and Seat at the Table.

In the video, Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, says that the biggest problem facing government today is the focus on process over outcome. He says agencies are too focused on compliance and not enough on innovation.

Andrew McLaughlin, another member of the team, describes how using technology resources as a utility can improve committee work:

“One of the most important transformations that the federal government is going to go through in the next decade is the shift to what’s called “cloud computing”…basically treating computing storage and processing like a commodity – like water or electricity – and allowing people to build applications on top of the infrastructure in a very flexible, open, and powerful way.

This is an important change for the federal government because it is dramatically cheaper than the old fashioned way of doing computing infrastructure. Working together as let’s say, a federal advisory committee, you can do that sort of thing up on the web in a way that is much easier than it would be if you had to download an application, us the telephone, and meet face-to-face in order to get your work done.