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Create a national registry of medical records.
A national registry of medical records will ensure that a patient's medical history is always available to clinicians, especially during medical emergencies. Safeguards will be used to ensure patients' privacy.
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Initiate a goverment backed "XPrize" program
As stated on the XPrize Foundation site:
"The mission of the X PRIZE Foundation is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. We do this by creating and managing prizes that drive innovators to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today.The X PRIZE is viewed as the leading model to leverage the elements of public interest, entrepreneurial spirit and cross-disciplinary innovation to bring about breakthroughs that benefit us all.
We believe that a small group of people with passion for a cause can achieve that which has never been attained. This is why…
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Nanotechnology
To paraphrase "The Graduate": nanotechnology, my boy, nanotechnology.
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Attract top global talent through enlarged H1-B visa program
US is the global leader in high tech innovation. However, our top position is under threat as our industries are increasingly unable to hire qualified scientists and engineers.
The H1B program has helped the US attract top technical minds from around the world to fuel our technology sector for years, helping us stay ahead of rapidly emerging countries like India and China who would otherwise retain such talent. Even as our technology industry expands to compete in the global market, fewer H1B visas are being offered to attract global talent to the US, putting us at a disadvantage in recruitment,…
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Invest in making our kids think science is cool again
Our children no longer want to be scientists and they think math is for nerds. Create some initiatives to make science cooler for young children. Create some programs in elementary schools to get kids interested early in science and technology.
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Ensure top security against hacks for goverment servers
The terrorism of the future will entail not simply bombs and explosions or even chemical warfare, but it will be about hacking into crucial government information (weapons, new development, etc).
If you've seen the latest Die Hard movie, such an overtake of "the grid" is not something too far fetched or impossible. Please make sure that the US servers holding such information is safe against terrorism!
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Invest in making our kids think science is cool again
Our children no longer want to be scientists and they think math is for nerds. Create some initiatives to make science cooler for young children. Create some programs in elementary schools to get kids interested early in science and technology.
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41 votes
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Preserve the right of first-sale doctrine for digital works.
Require companies to allow legal purchasers of their digitally distributed works (music files, movies, ebooks, etc.) to facilitate the transfer of those rights to another individual through a sale or gift.
For example, the purchaser of a book from a digital book store should be able to legally sell the ebook file the same way he would be entitled to sell a physical copy of the book had he purchased a physical copy of the book at a store. Companies that use DRM to protect their works should be required to facilitate a transfer of their usage rights to another…
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Set Regulations for Online Gaming in the US
In order to ensure installment before Obama takes office, the Fed. Reserve and the Department of the Treasury published the final rules implementing the UIGEA on Nov. 12th.
By doing so, the regulations against payment transactions involving Internet gambling become effective Jan. 19th, the day before the Obama is inaugurated.
These regulations are vague and fairly difficult to enforce.
Instead, the online gaming community should be legalized and regulated so we can benefit from the taxes as the residents of Nevada and Atlantic City do.
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Bring back the electric car
If we are going to bail out automotive companies, then they should be required to develop electronic car technology to help this nation remove our dependence on oil.
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Build an intelligent computer voting system
Once and for all, the nation should share a voting technology to ensure that our democracy can be accurate.
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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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6 votes
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Mandate that broadband speeds be faster
Broadband speeds in the US are half the speed of other countries. As a country we need to be competitive in technology and be the leader in all aspects of Information Technology. Government also need to regulate and cap prices of broadband across the board to make it faster speed affordable
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Create web infrastructure for research funding decisions
The decisions for funding biomedical research proposals at the NIH and elsewhere is made by 'study sections', small panels of experts who travel periodically to Bethesda and work in private in a quasi-democratic way. Making decisions on the distribution of our tax dollars more transparent and democratic would be helpful and speed progress, though participants would still have to be vetted. This would have the effect of making decisions evidence-based and rational, and reduce the influence by political appointees. Bush appointees set priorities in a faith-based fashion, reducing research on subjects like reproductive health while emphasizing study for topics such…
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Analyse top tech needs & if edu fills If not, Apprenticeship
I think the CTO will need to first analyse what are teh top technologies needes for the US to meet goals such as energy independence. If educational programs don't sufficiently address these needs, supplement the educational system with apprenticeships. To fill these, I think there should be some sort of practical testing, because history has shown time and time again taht academic knowledge, and a talent for practical application, are NOT the same thing - a person can have straight A's, but not be able to apply book-knowledge to solving practical problems.
Actualyl, that's true of pretty much everything. Grades…
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Allow students greater access to unrestricted information
Right now students are extremely limited to what they can can cant do on computers at school. if we want a truly free, open, and modern society, we need to make all types of information available to students (including Pornographic materials). we can grow as a society until we can cast off our social taboos and accept the human body as what it is. a fantastic piece of machinery that evolved over millions of years.
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Constitutional Amendment to ensure freedom of communication
Propose a Constitutional Amendment which would explicitly guarantee freedom of exchange and communication, instead of grandfathering in these protections through the freedom of speech protections. Would prevent abuses of information technology, like the widespread warrantless wiretap programs which the government has recently used which isn't prevented by the Constitution. Might not pass but would bring high-level attention to the issue, especially if it was supported at the highest levels.
8 votes