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While its great to think about what the top priorities of a Obama administration CTO can be, the only way to achieve them is to make sure he or she is located high enough in the administration. Only with the ear of the President, and the authority to make sure the entire Executive Branch gets a 21st century reboot, will any of the suggestions on this list get any serious traction.
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Create internttional set of codes and laws for the Internet
The nations of the world needs to work together to come up with a clear and well defined set of policies, laws, and regulations for the Internet. No one country can do this alone.
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Faciliate free, public access to health information.
Informed is empowered, but only if the basic information is accurate. The internet can be a powerful tool to help us citizens take better care of ourselves, and be informed participants in our own medical care. Our health is too important for us to continue relying on google, and thus website popularity/visibility, to provide the most credible and up-to-date information. Please create a website or series of websites providing health information and forums for discussion that will be useful to experts and laypeople alike.
Also, please address the enormous financial obstacle that increasingly restrictive scholarly publishing systems pose to health…
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Develop a Solution to the Economic Crisis
Here is a proposal to unite the nation in constructive action, not merely in traditional post-election platitudes. It offers a strategy that is neither left nor right nor compromise. We can rapidly grow the economic pie rather than having to fight over the distribution of current financial resources. This innovative approach requires no new taxes from anyone… yet no waiting for resources to trickle down! This solution to the economic crisis is technology-based and is a simple enhacement to credit cards and e-commerce. The new payments platform can be supplemented by such technologies as Computer Democracy, Electronic Town Hall Meetings…
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Initiate Healthcare Reform by Reforming Health IT
Create HIT Guidelines and Progress Indicators for all health care entities receiving federally funded dollars. Guidelines should be based around improvements to IT infrastructure, with patients access to quick affordable care being the key outcome. I would call the whole initiative "IT-Health" and Promote it as "Healing the Health Care Nervous System"
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create an unambigious roadmap for interfacing with the FCC
At a macro level this strategy will be super important before new technological innovations are introduced...it's not the ideas that will trip us up, but the protection of turf under the "old way" of doing things.
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Install webcams in Congress and Other Government Buildings
I would be great to be able to always be one click away from live feed from Congress--quality live feed with quality audio. This would increase the public's involvement with, and awareness of, their government.
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Bring government technology up to date
Most of government agencies use outdated computers with outdated software. In some cases, it is Windows 2000 and MS Office 2000 with respective hardware. Upgrading to modern equipment will increase productivity of government officials as well as reduce their health problems such as eye fatigue because CRT monitors with 60Hz refresh rate are the day before yesterday.
Such a modernization plan will also require adequate training for the government staff as migrating to several generations of software ahead will create quite a steep learning curve. While this plan is rather costly in the short run, it will also create the…
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PLEASE COME BACK HOME.
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Implement long term applied research
We need to encourage long term research and innovation with patient capital. Venture capital only funds projects which can turn a profit in a fairly short time frame.
We need more businesses with creative solutions to world problems. With the demise of industrial research labs (for example, Bell Labs) there are few places with a critical mass of long term thinking creative types. Universities have smart researchers, but frequently they are not interested in collaboration with industry or in providing practical solutions. Collaboration across diverse fields is difficult in the University setting because many researchers are extremely specialized.
We need…
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National Recommended Reading List
Create a national recommended reading list. Classify it by age and subject and include a short explanation with each book why it made the list.
Theodore Sturgeon said, "90% of everything is crud."
How is a young child curious about the world supposed to find a "good" book? Libraries jus accumulate they do not filter.
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Remove ALL travel restrictions on Americans
As an American, I feel I have the right to go wherever the HELL I want to go. If the State Department wants to issue a warning about the instability of an area, that's fine, but don't tell me where I can't go, because I'm going to find a way around it somehow. Where there's a will, there's a way.
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Require Houses of Worship to have complaint cards
Too many community religious leaders tell their congregations to vote for a political candidate. Broadcasters have equal time rules. Isn't a religious leader a broadcaster to some degree? There should be postage-free cards at every religious organization that could be mailed directly to the Internal Revenue Service if someone witnesses a religious leader endorse a political candidate. The person making the complaint should have the option of being anonymous. If Broadcasters pay taxes, churches should have to also. Each card could have a bar code to identify the church. If enough members of the congregation complain, tax exempt status should…
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increase funding for teacher prof. development in technology
schools need to evolve into the 21st century by adapting successful teaching strategies to encourage technology integration. the only way this is possible is through an increase in professional development directed at teachers, schools and university programs preparing future teachers.
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immigrations
imigration policy in yhe next ten yaers
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