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Crack down on cyberbullies and trolls.
Cyberbullies and trolls are being allowed to terrorize online social networking communities. The government needs to enforce the laws against online harassment, stalking, and hate speech.
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give me a job
seriously, i need to pay rent
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coordination of criminal databases
There needs to be better coordination in criminal databases. National, state, county and local information needs to be tied together. This would help in stopping criminals from simply changing locations and continuing their crimes. I believe it would also help in the economic situation. By example: I had my identity stolen in 1993 and when I attempted to contact local authority about this they simply told me that I had been careless. I was a single mother and employed a nice young mother in my community who seemed to check out to watch my daughter. Unfortunately I didn’t check all…
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Sponsor job-creating applications of existing tech.
For example, why not rebuild the auto industry in a way that Detroit hasn't had the foresight to do? Provide incentives for new auto factories building smaller fuel efficient cars - factories & cars built here. In one program we could reward factory automation (robots), domestic job production (even with robots, you need people to run/manage factories), and attack the energy problem.
A similar example would be in textiles. Why can't a highly automated factory based in US compete with cheap manual labor overseas?
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Web-enable all government operations of USA
USA should be run completely electronically (to the extent possible) like a very well run private company. The operation should ensure fairness, transparency, efficiency and restore confidence in government, while drastically reducing government spending. It's time to run the country like we are in the 21st Century. The Obama campaign was run like a 21st Century campaign and now it's time to run the country that way too!
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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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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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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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Promote Computing Diversity
Bigness and a computer monoculture are threats to national security. When almost everyone is running the same operating system it is all to easy for a hostile foreign power to create an exploit that could swiftly bring our economy to a halt. Too many resources are required to protect this fragile system. Maintaining this near monopoly also stifles innovation as change is seen as a threat, not an opportunity, and after the threat is defeated there is no incentive for the monopolist to innovate at all. If the lazy monopolist later runs into trouble they are declared "too big to…
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Use robots & automation to recover manufacturing leadership
Just like those financial wizards invested in ever more abstract instruments of collateralized debt instead of real wealth creation, technologists have focused on copies of software and capturing eyeballs. To regrow America we need a new focus on machines which actually DO something, which create tangible value.
The robotics revolution in manufacturing, agriculture, service, sales, health-care, construction, is never a topic of national focus, and we stand to lose out to Japan and Korea once again, unless the CTO steps up as a visionary for robotics and automation, not just free Internet.
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Goverment sponsored Highschool and college feedback law.
It's not a mystery anymore. Our nation as a whole is lagging behind other first world countries in education as a whole. Also according to the census, only a third of the country has a Highschool Degree when our standard of living shows that a Highschool degree does not make enough money to live off of.
This is where this idea comes in. Make a public government sponsored website that allows parent and students of a school to grade the teachers teaching there based on fairness, content taught, how it helps the students in the working world and life, and…
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Be the visionary for technology application and not the CIO
Instead of being another bureaucrat to administer government policy on technology, the new CTO should be the national visionary on the potential for emerging technologies to improve both government and citizen's lives.
The other suggestions, while having merit, are focused on existing problems. Lets do something new and look forward instead of backward as bureaucracy tends to do.
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Switch back to GroupWise for e-mail instead of Microsoft
Getting away from big brother and back to a stable platform would be a benefit. Use something that requires less maintenance and is secure compared to Exchange.
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make it possible to vote via the internet.
We should make it possible and secure so that future generations can vote from a personal computer.
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Volunteer built software for running government
Create a wikipedia type framework for the building of software projects for the government. The aim is to get volunteers to build the software needed for more efficient running of central and state agencies.
Software specs for sections of these projects, to be written using open standards, would be placed on the web. Volunteers could then create software to those specs and post versions of the software. Testing volunteers could test it out and list bugs. Software with the least bugs would be plugged into the working project code.
Permanent hidden links from the publicly used software to programmers home…
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Network neutrality ONLY for the network
People are really adamant about network neutrality. Let's not get carried away and drag a whole lot of baggage along with it. Focus on the real issue. Any network infrastructure (any routes over physical medium that traverses public property) should be 100% content neutral. Only charge for bits and bandwidth.
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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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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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