732 results found
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Earth-friendly Disposal/Recycling of Technological Waste
"Every year, an estimated 400 million units of obsolete electronics are scrapped. Four billion pounds of electronic waste, or e-waste, was discarded in the United States in 2005, accounting for between 2% and 4% of the municipal solid waste stream. As much as 87.5% of this was incinerated or dumped in landfills. Of the remaining 12.5% collected for “recycling,” industry sources claim that about 80% is exported to developing countries where it is processed in primitive conditions, severely endangering the environment, workers and communities. Pollution created by irresponsible e-waste processing can also come back to haunt those in the exporting…
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Create an official version of this website
Create an official government website that will allow the people of the United States of America to suggest and vote for priority on items that they wish the chief technology officer (CTO) of the United States of America to address. ObamaCTO.org is an excellent step in the right direction, and deserves to be officially implemented by the government.
Implementation of the official website must include security and safety measures to prevent tampering or unfair manipulations of votes or suggestions, just like any official election.
Considerations should be made to ensure that any American citizen can access and give their input…
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Crowdsource federal data
Put all data used to measure federal program performance and produced by federal agencies online in the most accessible form possible. Run a national competition to produce applications using that data in mash-ups to improve citizens' lives and the functioning of the federal government. To the maximum extent possible, present presolicitation briefings, RFP publication conferences and bidder conferences for federal procurements on video and make them publicly available.
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Unified Civic Network
The Obama administration should sponsor, in partnership with various public and private entities, the creation of a unified meta-network of state, county and municipal online communities.
The government should not own this network, it should be built as a co-op owned by the citizenry and managed by a non-political, trans-partisan organization. Government entities will be able to participate in an official capacity but not moderate citizen participation.
Contact me if you have questions: michael at socialchord dot com
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Chief TECHNOLOGY officer? Who gives a shit.
Seriously. Who gives a shit, we have bigger things to worry about. The Commander in Chief will have much more of an active role in any of this than a CTO, who can't veto bills, or legislate... LAME.
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Break up Microsoft into MANY small Companies
Microsoft has repeatedly violated the Sherman Antitrust act over the last 30 years. This is unacceptable. This monopoly does nothing except stifle innovation. Small business is the key to innovation in this country. We are 30 years behind where we would be in terms of technology because of Microsoft. The Obama CTO needs to do everything in its power to break up and disband Microsoft.
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Builders to Bytes program...
Create an educational program to train construction workers / builders in the technology industry / trade. This should include training and eduction for: project management, coding / development, testing / QE, documentation, services, etc. We must create a knowledge worker economy!
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Provide unlimited, online access to libarary collections.
Our nation's libraries - both public and academic - contain vast sums of information, and making that information available online, for free, to anyone who would seek to access it, can and should be a high priority of this office. If someone can read it, listen to it, or watch it when they visit a library, surely we can find a way to provide them that same access via the Internet.
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contraception de-fangs abortion issue
making contraception safe affordable available and getting the word out would de-fang the abortion issue
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Green Bailout for big three Automakers
They should be bailed out under the conditions that a LARGE percentage of the cars and trucks they will build, will be alternative energy vehicles (heavy and light trucks - CNG & automobiles - fuel cell). Boone has the right idea; new CNG infrastructure (gas stations, pipelines) needs to be built! Americans will buy quality vehicles if they can deliver power and range.
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Get rid of HSPD-12
HSPD-12 requires the government to issue one smart card for all civilian agencies. HSPD-12 has been a failure perpetuated by an over zealous GSA for the benefit of contractors--which is how the directive was written. While the government has issued some cards, they do not interact as required by HSPD-12 and do not add anything to the departments but a deficit. HSPD-12 has spent millions with NO return. It's time to get rid of it!
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Leash RIAA, MPAA etc. before they rob and accuse everybody
These two have been extremely intimidating in the field of copyright and intellectual property. They use (dirty) tricks and unclear or no evidence at all to rip people off on the grounds that they violated copyright.
This practice has to STOP and media giants have to realize that the problem is not piracy (they even accused kids!) but their methods of profiting from music and video industry.
Time has come to put the end to their reign of terror.
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Create nationwide interoperable network
Our nation is in DIRE need of a nationwide communications network that first responders can use.Right now, when different authorities (i.e. local, state, fed) respond to emergency, they are lacking the ability to communicate with one another. It is a necessary concern (and one that Obama has mentioned the CTO would address)
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6 votes
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Credit card providers lower interest rates to 3% above prime
Help consumers burdened with credit debt and get Americans buying again. Credit card interest rates run as high as 30% -- something like loan sharking. Let's have a law that limits allowable interest to 3 to 6 percent above the prime interest rate.
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make accessibility and universal design priorities
People with disabilities are still at a disadvantage when using the web. The CTO should lobby Congress to extend the ADA to the web, reinforce Section 508 rules for federal websites, advocate for universal design in the web, and encourage private enterprise and open-source developers to offer inexpensive solutions for issues people with disabilities have with using the web.
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6 votes
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Switch back to GroupWise for e-mail instead of Microsoft
Getting away from big brother and back to a stable platform would be a benefit. Use something that requires less maintenance and is secure compared to Exchange.
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Relax encryption export
The legal restrictions preventing exportation of encryption technology are cumbersome and outdated. In the interests of helping US organizations keep up with the rest of the world, we should simply drop them.
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Enact a content consumer's Bill of Rights
The US has slid much too far in the direction of protection of large corporate copyright holders, to the exclusion of traditional Fair Use of the content we consume. We should enact legislation specifically protecting the right of consumers to archive, copy, and transfer content to different media formats for the purposes of our own convenience and consumption. It should be made explicit that provisions of the DMCA do not override these fundamental rights of content consumers.
17 votes