Craigslist's Craig Praises VA Innovation

Craig Newmark, founder of Craiglist, had high praise for the Veterans Affairs Department in a post on the official VA blog, VAntage Point today.

He led off by saying, "Hey, in the last couple years or so, the Department of Veterans Affairs has accomplished at lot. It's time for people of good will to give them credit." And he went on to say, "What we're talking about is for-real cultural change, which is really required pretty much everywhere, now or not too far off."

He praised employee and vendor innovation, better interaction between VA employees and vets, the open source model to help develop the next generation of VA/Defense Department electronic health records and the lead VA has taken in the use of iPads in the federal government.

So, in face of this endorsement, nothing cranky from me about VA today.