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Create national minimum standards for technology in schools
No matter if it is K-12 or higher education, our students need to learn how to use and accelerate technology. However, schools are all over the board on this, many for lack of funding, others have just not caught up yet.
Set minimum standards in equipment, software and technology curriculum for all schools and provide funding for those that are struggling. In standards testing for students, test not only for english, math and science but on technology usage and perhaps development as well.
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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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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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"'bail-in' instead of a bailout"
The Portland (OR) Oregonian carried an excellent editorial on Dec. 29, '08, "A 'bail-in' instead of a bailout," suggesting that the Detroit Big 3 accept our tax bailout on condition they switch to creating "nationwide urban networks of streetcars, light rail and other public transit systems." This would bring us back to the excellent public transit we used to have before cars proliferated. <www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/12/a_bailin_instead_of_a_bailout.html>
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Scorecard to Measure Human, Social, Enviro Results
We need an integrated economic- environmental- social strategy for government -- and preferably across all three sectors (business, NGOs and government) -- that tracks human, social and environmental results with an overall performance scorecard.
By measuring these quantifiable improvements – and how they drive economic vitality – an Obama administration could better track the "ROI" of programs, budgets, tax incentives, regulatory choices, and cross-sector incentives to stimulate an improved society.
If the government shifts its focus to managing outcomes (such as reduced cost per mile driven for vehicles) instead of picking and choosing "winners" (like ethanol subsidies), then we could…
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Enact legislation to protect privacy of ISP consumers
With new marketing schemes being developed by shifty organizations, it is important to protect internet users' online privacy. Schemes like Phorm look to inspect and modify all your internet accesses at the monetary benefit to the ISP. Some IT security communities have already spoken out against this technology. But, there is no legislation protecting consumers from their local ISP, should they decide to roll out such a technology.
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Legal decisions & legislation should be public & searchable
Today legal decisions and even legislation itself is often closed behind "walled gardens" and hard to search, or even copyrighted so it cannot be easily cited and re-used. Legal decisions and legislation should be open and available to all. The specifics of redaction due to personal or other security would need to be decided.
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is not a Chicago thug, thief or bagman
We are getting to many thugs from Chicago in Washington DC. This will corrupt the honest ways of Washington DC. Barney Frank needs the time to help the Auto Industry like he bankrupted the loan industry.
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Create an educational backplane to make education free
MIT and other educational institutions offer some of their material through Open Courseware.
Please setup a system where every school receiving federal funding has to participate in the development of courseware for an online college so that everyone has free (or extremely inexpensive) access to an undergraduate degree in the growing industries (green collar, biotech and engineering)
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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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Eliminate "reality" TV
The collective IQ of the nation would instantly increase by 50 points.
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Consolidate Redundant Government IT Services
There are many IT services across Government agencies that are redundant, and waste taxpayer dollars by paying for the same thing many times over. IT services that can be shared across agencies should be consolidated; applications, tools, and solutions that have been developed should be leveraged. Unprecedented economies of scale could be realized if the stovepiped government IT structure can be broken.
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to make alternative fuel deadline on US sold vehicles
To provide a deadline for automakers to offer a fully alternative energy** vehicle that MUST be sold competitively where gasoline and diesel passenger vehicles are sold.
alternative meaning other then Diesel, Gasoline or E100. and be able to run solely from the alternative fuel and not just as a hybrid.
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abolish the TSA
The TSA is ineffective, and routinely ignores the Constitution, Privacy Act, etc.
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