Barack Obama is going to appoint the nation's first CTO. What are the top priorities?
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2 votes
Bail out the solar industry
China's JA Solar Holdings Co Ltd reported a quarterly net loss Tuesday and said it would fall short of its 2009 revenue target as tight credit markets and a global economic downturn cut demand for solar power. Solar gloom overshadows Q-Cells, Solon: A lack of project funding threatens to undermin... more
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0 votes
publicly track roll-back of Bush directives
Post a website displaying the Obama administration's progress in rolling back Bush's creepier, more inflammatory presidential directives. Let's close Guantanamo and restore the rule of law.
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5 votes
Implement CP80
Let us choose what we allow into our homes with a solution like CP80. Go here for details http://www.cp80.org/
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19 votes
Break up Microsoft into MANY small Companies
Microsoft has repeatedly violated the Sherman Antitrust act over the last 30 years. This is unacceptable. This monopoly does nothing except stifle innovation. Small business is the key to innovation in this country. We are 30 years behind where we would be in terms of technology because of M... more
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9 votes
free access to academic resources (articles, publications)
The products of academic, scholarly, scientific work (scientific articles, conference proceedings, research reports, etc) should be freely accessible to anyone, full-text, without any paid subscription. Knowledge should be accessible to anyone who wants to be informed or who wants to do more rese... more
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29 votes
Create a web UI for all levels of government
Government needs a user interface - not just the federal level, but state and local as well. The user interface should not only allow access to all services, but should provide information resources, including ongoing work by legislators and city councils, and the ability to discuss ongoing issu... more
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16 votes
Stop Outsourcing as it is the root cause of all problems
Outsourcing is the root cause of all the problems. Put limits on outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to China and high paying computer jobs to India.
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1 votes
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3 votes
Reinstate a modern "fairness doctrine"
OK, maybe this is not for the CTO to do, but for the FCC, but... Things have gone massively downhill in the media since the Reagan era repeal of the fairness doctrine. Since the airwaves are public property, and cable systems are monopolies granted by local gov'ts, there's a legitimate public i... more
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10 votes
Credit card providers lower interest rates to 3% above prime
Help consumers burdened with credit debt and get Americans buying again. Credit card interest rates run as high as 30% -- something like loan sharking. Let's have a law that limits allowable interest to 3 to 6 percent above the prime interest rate.
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1 votes
No-fault insurance and workers' comp. insurance your doctor
I could not use my own doctors whom I treated with for eighter of these insurance coverage. Why becasue they harrassed, insult and challeged medical care needs or should I say don't approve them. As a result from a slip and fall I developed RSD due to lack of early requested treatment. I am su... more
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10 votes
Unlocked Cellphones for Everyone
Ensure that consumers have the opportunity to use the cell phone of their choosing on the network of their choosing by making the cell phone companies sell completely unlocked phones.
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4 votes
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 productio... more
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1 votes
Nanotechnology Regulation
Let's try and avoid the grey goo scenario.
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1 votes
Standardize data transportation and handling rules
Create and enforce standardized rules to ensure security of all privacy act data handled by federal agencies with emphasis on transporting data.
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2,396 votes
Gov to be ran on 100% free software
Premise: Software is licensed to distribute the overhead of its initial development, the cost of which few organizations could afford. Because all government software purchases are made with public funds, the public should be licensed to use it.
Proposition: All future investments are to be mad... more
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4 votes
Focus on White Space development
The FCC opened up development of the TV spectrum White Space on Nov 4th 2008. With the correct attention this could allow the deployment of internet nationwide in only a few years. the technology is backed by industry leaders (Google, Microsoft, Intel to name a few). This would help to create a n... more
