# Open technologies are the future — governments must escape centralized choke points

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-09-15
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - September 14th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:54 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckp4eQ94ojM&t=174s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-09-15-open-technologies-are-the-future-governments-must-zyh7/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Open technologies are the future — governments must escape centralized choke points," Akash Weekly - September 14th 2022 (Akash Network), 15 Sept 2022, 00:02:54. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckp4eQ94ojM&t=174s

## Quote — verbatim

> We anticipated this level of involvement long time ago. We've been arguing the fact that open technologies are the future because they reduce reliance... think about how much money and time investment goes into Amazon's really centralized systems that have a lot of control and more often than not become choke points for combat operations or anything strategically important. It's important for our government to operate without reliance on closed technologies.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On the U.S. DoD website deployed to Akash via a community member. Greg adds later ([00:14:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckp4eQ94ojM&t=867s)): "if Akash is good enough for a U.S. Department [of] Defense website, I think Akash is good enough for a lot of folks."