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Adopt national health care data standards
Create health care data standards to allow standardization of national of health care data. This will allow reduction in administrative costs associated with health care, and facliltate public health research
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Free Public Wireless internet.
American Society would benefit with wide spread access to the internet. America should make internet technology its strategic competitive advantage. Investment infrastructure could be made to have free public Wireless internet.
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Global Warming
A farmer in Somalia needs your help to feed his family and help you to address a global issue - global warming. Much of what Americans do at home is reflected in the rest of the world and Americans are morally obliged to start thinking globally - beyond monitors you stare at now. America’s security is also at stake if Somalia’s farmers cannot feed their families. And global warming threatens America’s farmers also.
This is why I cannot afford having my suggestion sunk into oblivion by barrages of wishes. I will, therefore, restate my suggestion with a solution for the…
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Provide real time -real world 2 way access to the president
Provide "real time -real world" 2 way access to the president.
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Web-based confidential participation in health research
Public health research is tremendously expensive in part because Americans are too terrified to participate by answering surveys honestly, much less donate samples (dna, serum, biopsies etc). Many countries have very comprehensive national health records, tumor registries, records of occupational exposures etc. Leaders like Obama should step up and tell African Americans, for example, that it's in their best interest to participate, and that there are safeguards (tremendously burdensome and complex safeguards) now that prevent repeats of the Tuskege experiment. Hell, you have to do a ton of paperwork to justify using mice! Our understanding of cancer and infectious diseases…
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create a plug and power standard system for portable devices
Recycle all the different wall warts into one standard for phones, laptops, video or music players and all the charged up devices we use, and please make it world wide.
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Rewrite intellectual property law via a democratic process.
Title says it all. Copyright law, patents, and trademark law harm the many and benefit the few. Let people in every state set up councils that are open to the whole public, and send delegates to a national IP congress to revamp copyright law.
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Bill Joy for CTO
Appoint someone who has a deep history in technology. someone who understands it well, can explain the issues clearly, in both technical terms and lay terms. I heard Bill Joy's name bounced around as a possible candidate, and i think he would be well respected in the technical community.
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Award companies for keeping tech jobs in the U.S.
Too many companies are out sourcing (partly because they only care about the bottom now, and not a year form now). Companies should be awarded for creating new Tech jobs here and for investing in R&D here in the U.S.
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Major Tax Breaks for R&D Technology businesses
In order to make America the leading country in research and development again, smaller and more nimble business should be given tax breaks/incentives.
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nigger
NIGGERS
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use satellites and drones to destroy drug crops
Use satellites and unmanned drones to locate cannabis, coca, and poppy plants. Then use unmanned drones deliver herbicide or fire to destroy the plants. Allow destruction to limit supply. Less supply drives the price up. Higher prices can influence demand. Less money in the hands of drug cartels helps our neighboring countries protect their law enforcement and judicial officials, and drains terrorists of revenue needed to fund operations against the U.S. and its allies.
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Grow Jobs by Accelerating Invention Time to Market
For the US to be globally competitive in manufacturing, the up hill climb needed to turn an idea into a safe, manufactured product must be changed to a down hill slide.
To accomplish this, each step from invention to shipping and retailing product must be examined and the cost of effectively meeting all local, state, and federal government standards must be reduced. Today, an inventor in the US can create manufacturing jobs in China faster and easier than he/she can in the US. This is because the time and cost to turn an idea into a new product in China…
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One time 401k tax exemption to pay off homes
Want to infuse capital into the system? Create a 90 day, one-time window to let people pay off their mortgages from their retirement accounts. The banks will have more liquidity than they know what to do with.
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use search engine results to track public health risks
The CDC should partner with search engine providers to compile and track data on disease-related search results. This data would allow sharper tracking of diseases as they move through the population and has been done well by Google tracking the flu already.
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Create a DRM-free national music/video subscription service.
It is patently obvious to all but the ossified music and video industry that you can't treat bits like an object. Music and video have to be free. But artists and those that provide services to them deserve to be supported and when they're good, to be rich!
If you want to jump-start the economy, create a cheap subscription service. It will more than pay the artists and the industries that really serve them. And it will UNLEASH sales of hardware/software like NOTHING ELSE.
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Focus on White Space development
The FCC opened up development of the TV spectrum White Space on Nov 4th 2008. With the correct attention this could allow the deployment of internet nationwide in only a few years. the technology is backed by industry leaders (Google, Microsoft, Intel to name a few). This would help to create a new sub-industry & could produce jobs. There is also the chance that local communities could run the connections in a "public access channel" or "PBS" style format. This could be done in conjunction with one or more of the companies listed who could provide hardware, training & infrastructure…
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Clearly Define How the CTO Affects Outside Agencies
Beyond the periphery of serving USG, the CTO's Office would be limited to:
Defining policies for businesses and other organizations when serving USG,
Promoting investment in education, research and development for technologies needed by USG to meet future performance, cost and energy efficiency objectives,
Sponsoring via NIST, HIGH PROFILE innovation awards that promote infrastructure needed to meet USG performance, cost and energy efficiency objectives. Offer large awards for invention AND methods that engage US workers and students in designing, automating, manufacturing, packaging and distributing solutions.
Preparing and communicating general purpose non-binding guidelines for technology performance, cost and energy efficiency based…
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Define A CTO Mission with a Practical Scope of Responsibili
Start with a premise that the United States Federal Government is a very large and efficient multi-Departmental, multi-national company. Call it USG. Assume that USG has one mission, To Effectively and Efficiently Serve and Protect the Citizens of the United States of America. Limit the USG CTO's mission to "Developing Technology Infrastructure and Executing Technology Strategy that Ensures USG is the Most Effective, Efficient and Securely Operating Entity in the World."
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