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Barack Obama is going to appoint the nation’s first CTO. What are the top priorities?

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  1. The Internet is one of the most valuable technical resources in America. In order to continue the amazing growth and utility of the Internet, the CTO's policies should:

    Improve accessibility in remote and depressed areas.

    Maintain a carrier and content neutral network.

    Foster a competitive and entrepreneurial business environment.

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  2. The patriot act had many sub-ordinate clauses that strip away our privacy as American citizens. These were shoehorned in as an effort to protect us, while they in fact strip us of certain rights to privacy as citizens. Lets protect our nation while ensuring confidence and privacy to our citizens.

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  3. It is evident that the framers of the infamous Digital Millenium Copyright Act intended it to have a transformative effect on the public and legal perception of intellectual property. In the attempt to develop a fully-realized definition of what constitutes infringement, fair use, and the rights of users in the consumption of digital works, the DMCA has had quite the opposite effect by institutionalizing considerable legal ambiguity. The recent spat between the John McCain presidential campaign and YouTube has demonstrated that both practitioners of law and a leading supporter of the DMCA are no closer to understanding the controversial law…

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  4. The government has failed to take the lead on completing the task of moving the country completely to the SI metric system. George H.W. Bush tried to do something about it, but gave the bureaucrats an easy out. Failure to follow the same measurement standards as the rest of the world is costing US industry something like $1 trillion per year.

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  5. We can unleash a wave of civic innovation if we open up government data to programmers. The government has a treasure trove of information: legislation, budgets, voter files, campaign finance data, census data, etc. Let's STANDARDIZE, STRUCTURE, and OPEN up this data.

    6,179 votes
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  6. Double the # of engineers who graduate from American universities each year to 60K. Bring more women into the field, encourage foreigners who study engineering here to stay.

    We train foreign nationals, invest in them, and then make them go home. I would staple a green card to their diploma.

    5,990 votes
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  7. One strategy to bridge the digital divide is to make sure everyone has broadband access to the Internet. Broadband should be available everywhere--with plenty of public access in libraries and other government offices for people who can't afford broadband in their homes.

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  8. Electronic voting machines are insecure, unreliable, and prone to a variety of problems that undermine trust in our elections process. Optical scanners and other technologies have some problems as well.

    The CTO can create a clear roadmap to get reliable, trustworthy, verifiable voting technology into every precinct in America by the time of the 2010 elections.

    Additionally, the CTO should employ information designers to create a national standard for ballot designs so that all citizens are ensured the right to a ballot that is clear, easy to use, and reliable.

    2,906 votes
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  9. Premise: Software is licensed to distribute the overhead of its initial development, the cost of which few organizations could afford. Because all government software purchases are made with public funds, the public should be licensed to use it.

    Proposition: All future investments are to be made in software that is licensed to grant use and source code access to all governed subjects. Security will be maintained with the use of trusted concepts, including asymmetric cryptography, and not rely on the obscurity of closed source software. Where viable further development of existing operating systems and applications will be funded. Where not…

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  10. Connect the work that most needs doing (retrofitting our buildings with solar panels, insulation, etc.) with the people who most need work. Let's have the green energy revolution lift all boats--not create an energy apartheid! See http://www.vanjones.net/ for more.

    2,183 votes
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  11. Require open access to the results of non-classified research funded by taxpayers. Extend the exemplary policy now in place at the NIH to all federal agencies.

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  12. Embed intelligence throughout a nation-wide electrical grid, on both sides of the meter to enhance the efficiency of distribution and use. This will (A) accelerate the penetration of sources like solar & wind that are diurnal or intermittent; (B) take advantage of smart meters and distributed storage as plug-in cars become available; (C) permit power to be wheeled from where resources are rich to where electricity is needed; (D) provide tens of thousands of jobs and train workers to replace the baby boomers who will retire from utilities over the next 5-10 years. Start with the government-owned Bonneville Power Administration…

    1,866 votes
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  13. We're at the early stages of what appears to be a slow-motion upheaval of IP rights worldwide. What we're missing is a clear and consistent vision and set of policies in this space. Patents, copyright law, and many other aspects fit under this umbrella.

    1,368 votes
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  14. The mechanics of democracy should not be private. Elections should be completely transparent . The private sector should not be able to profit from proprietary vote counting systems. All vote counting software applications should be the property of the citizens of the United States of America. As such, they should be completely reviewable, testable, and transparent.

    The Federal Government should coordinate with the states to migrate all election systems to publicly owned, standard platforms.

    1,121 votes
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  15. Allow at least a 5 day comment period where the public can comment on all legislation before it is signed into law.

    980 votes
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  16. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the research and development arm of the Defence Department. They were a key player in the development of the Internet--now they are making robots that will run up caves. We are starving for fundamental research.

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  17. Spur innovation by putting a few million dollar prizes out there. You'll get a lot more than a million dollars of innovative work out of it.

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  18. Create a website where large and small government projects are opened to bidding from private companies, organizations, and individuals.

    Make some information about the bids public so that interested parties can assist in ensuring that jobs are only awarded to those who are qualified and ready to fullfill them.

    Streamline the process to make it possible for government to farm out micro-tasks.

    Make it possible for citizens to volunteer in the service of important government work, either by donating labor or serving as advisors.

    Create a tagging structure to make the site searchable. Publish listings using RSS and allow users…

    693 votes
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  19. We need to multipurpose devices, networks, spectrum whenever and wherever possible. Government procurement can lead the way by demanding openness for procurements that involve large numbers of machines. For example, transponders in cars; smart meters in homes; huge laptop or cellphone purchases; and networks that really could give excess capacity to abuttors while preserving priority for emergency services.

    610 votes
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  20. Execute a social media strategy that integrates public and government on all levels.
    - STRUCTURE: Create a distributed multi way information plan: Country, State County, City, People and back.
    - TOPICS: Create focus topics like Energy, Economy, Transportation... you get the idea.
    - WORK GROUPS: Build active communities of volunteers to run those online initiatives. 100 Million volunteers connected online - the spirit of co-creation now on a national level.
    - FEEDBACK: Allow the public to comment on government units and services, provide inputs and possible solutions.
    - ARCHITECTURE: There is a lot technology, even more new technologies who may…

    563 votes
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