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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. stop bandwidth caps and restore unlimited internet access.

    More and more American broadband companies are imposing restrictive bandwidth caps on their users. This hurts the development of the internet, it hurts businesses that depend on digital distribution to sell their product, and finally it hurts everyday Americans who use the internet for learning, to earn a living, or to entertain themselves with the media of tomorrow.

    ISP's argue that a mere few consume the most bandwidth, and therefore all should be punished with restrictive monthly caps on their usage. This is wrong. The internet is growing and expanding. Video is everywhere, online gaming is an industry unto itself,…

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  2. Lazer sharks

    Defend our nation from the terrorizers with friggn' lazor sharks.

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  3. Protect scientific research from ideologies and religions.

    Scientific research of all disciplines is continually hampered and stifled by regulations from all sorts of directions, motivated by political agendas, ideological censorship, via a variety of religious or superstitious motivations. This must not be. Science is what drives progress and improves everyone's lives, even when the benefits don't seem to come readily visible or available. Science must be ensured to work freely and openly, and not clamped down.

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  4. Make sure all public services use open formats/protocols

    Public services should use open formats and protocols.This promotes:
    - interoperability
    - lack of lock-in
    - democratizes access
    - promote competition between providers
    - allows for support from other providers than the original vendor
    - prevents data becoming obsolete or even inaccessible

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  5. Create a smart mass transit system

    Let's build a smart mass transit system on the scale of the interstate highway system.

    87 votes
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  6. Tony Dawes

    Your only choice should be Tony Dawes from Suquamish WA. Not only is he the brilliant cyber-czar you are looking for but he is a down to earth family man who would be a tremendous asset to this post.

    18 votes
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  7. fund more pure science research (@ universities)

    We have the greatest research universities in the world, but we limit what they can study because of policy & politics. Blind funding for good ideas should be the basis for how we enable pure research (top 2-5 universities per state should be "funded" for research in a speciality field).

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  8. ensure that ugc on whitehouse.gov uses creative commons

    information and content that is created by the government is generally made available in the public domain for people to legally share and build upon. along with the works that are published online by the government, there should be a web platform for citizens to publish their own ideas and material that they have created that might be useful in helping to solve social problems. this platform should offer creative commons licenses to users, so that the content that they upload can be legally shared and built upon by both the government and members of the private sector.

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  9. Hybrid Mesh- Fiber-Broadband--SATCOM Network

    Create a collaborative-open hybrid Fiber -RF Network that takes on the technologies of HSDPA, EVDO-WiMAX- LTE - Wi-Fi and SATCOM.

    Do this in a similar way that Meraki Networks and Open-Mesh has leveraged Wi-Fi only to create hotpots that can be stood up in minutes, Allow the federally sponsored networks to host these Government Portals at the state level in Autonomous POPs,.

    Deploy these networks so that a user can roam to any broadband network carrier on a device and covers all the frequency bands with a programmable SIM chip or through biometric identification.

    Add the the ability to slap…

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  10. Invest in financial education for future generation

    Financial education is going to be the crucial part, as technology was about a decade back. The financial weapons of mass destruction (as stated by Mr. Buffet) that has bought us this credit crises are here to stay. Even with reforms and regulations they are going to grow and get sold to masses again. Hence to protect our kids from future attacks and prevent them from making naive and un-informed decision, a financial education is crucial at early stage.

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  11. Ensure science is an educational priority

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  12. Protect Net Neutrality

    Carriers/ISPs are fast becoming power-hungry when it comes to controlling the information you send across the Internet. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down traffic which may compete with their commercially provided services. This way the consumer has more choice over the services he/she uses without carriers interfering based on their own commercial interests. If there were more competition among carriers, this would be a non-issue but we've seen much carrier-collusion in recent years, and this needs to end.

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  13. America against muslims..

    Anti-muslim attitudes should be changed...ALL MUSLIMS ARE NOT TERRORISTS!!!!!!!

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  14. direct all agencies to implement virtualization technology

    The CTO should ensure that all executive agency CIO/CTOs consolidate hardware in their server and desktop environments, to the extent possible, and use virtualization software.

    Under this plan, hardware costs could be lowered significantly and systems administration maintenance would be minimized.

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  15. That the government stay the hell out of the way...

    Here is an idea, the Obama CTO can go on vacation for four years and the the free market drive which way technology goes and at the same time stop trying to pass legislation that taxes the hell out of the Internet.

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  16. FAIR TAX

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  17. Reform Immigration

    Smart people should be able to stay in the US. It should be quicker to get permanent residency and citizenship for talented people. The bar should not be low, but the process should be efficient.

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  18. give everyone free hugs

    because it's the right thing to do.

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  19. Adopt ISO Dates (YYYY-MM-DD)

    Like the metric system dates should be universal. This will confuse those of limited intellect but help anybody who ever has to sort order or do anything by date in a spreadsheet or on a computer... We only need convince 3 people: the President of the US, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs then let us please go YYYY-MM-DD when we specifiy any date here or anywhere in the world...

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  20. Fund Fusion Technology Projects Similar to the ITER

    France is beginning construction on the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), a tokamak style reactor to be functioning by 2016. The US has not been the leader in nuclear and fusion technologies in recent years. The US is lagging behind in scientific innovation in this area. Projects like the ITER and institutions like CERN (makers of the largest particle accelerator and the worlds most sensitive "camera") make the US pale in comparison.

    Furthermore, nuclear / fusion electrical production has a minuscule carbon footprint when compared to that of the "cleanest" coal fired plant. In fact, technologically we are closer to…

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