SubscribeNo suitable nodes are available to serve your request.To aid accountability, Obama said he would post all non-emergency bills online for five days before he signed them into law, allowing Americans a chance to weigh in on the legislation. In addition, he said he would post all meetings between lobbyists and government agencies online.Like FDR, he's a president who's fully aware of the available technology and utilizes it, to aid his governance and give Americans a stake. This quality alone impresses the hell out of me. I'm just wondering when he's going to release his own OS (undoubtedly open source, to be sure).
Obama said he would require cabinet officials to speak to Americans via national broadband town-hall style meetings to discuss issues at their respective agencies.
Who's Obama's Best Bet For Boosting U.S. Technology? -- "It appears that Silicon Valley will hold Barack Obama to his promise to consider naming a national technology czar/chief technology officer for his administration, and industry observers already have a few suggestions for the president-elect. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been mentioned as a contender, largely due to his public support for Obama, which included campaign appearances in mid-October."
Obama Names Tech Execs to Transition Team -- "Google.org's Sonal Shah and former InterActiveCorp executive Julius Genachowski are named to the president-elect's transition team."
John Doerr's Advice to Obama: Take Bill Joy -- "In an interview with John Heilemann at the Web 2.0 Summit here today, Kleiner-Perkins VC John Doerr, formerly a Hilary Clinton supporter, relayed the technology advice he would have for President-elect Obama."
Obama's Search for a CTO -- "As the president-elect's transition team assembles an administration, it could look to one of its own to fill the role of chief technology officer."
President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps.
The Obama-Biden Transition Project does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other basis of discrimination prohibited by law.God DAMN that is the most fucking awesome thing I have ever seen on a government web page.
:q! and C-x C-c to you, sir!old way: change_education
new way: change_stuff('education','health','x')
One of the reasons why there's so much 'same old...' is the lack of mechanisms for change, I think I see an understanding of this and an intention to create mechanisms.Process Revolution.also btw, yes we did!
Lawrence Lessig, a Constitutional law professor, suggests that throughout American history there have been a number of unusual “revolutions whose purpose was not to tear down the existing social and governmental structures, but to amend them in discrete ways.” He cites the Second Constitional Convention and the post-Watergate reforms as clear examples - and he suggests as a result of Bush’s legacy, we may be on the verge of another “process revolution.” Many of Obama’s proposals focus on reforming processes rather than achieving certain ends. For example, he proposes to increase transparency for all aspects of government and to allow citizens a more active role in responding to and shaping government policy. Neither of these changes in process necessarily further liberal goals - but they both help reform government in general.
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