Obama Announces ‘No Tech Policy Left Behind’ Plan
by John Paczkowski
Posted on November 15, 2007 at 6:25 AM PT
If Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s is to do the same to its tech-policy issues.
Obama made the now obligatory pilgrimage yesterday to Google headquarters, where he unveiled a high-tech agenda that might just as easily have been written by Google’s director of public policy and government affairs as by Obama’s campaign office.
Promising to use technology to bring openness and transparency to American democracy after seven years of “one of the most secretive administrations in our history,” Obama laid out a detailed package of technology policies designed to provide more Web accessibility to government records, strengthen online privacy, free up wireless spectrum, put high-speed broadband within reach of all Americans, reform the patent system and maintain network neutrality. “I will take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality,” Obama said in prepared remarks. “Because once providers start to privilege some applications or Web sites over others, then the smaller voices get squeezed out, and we all lose. The Internet is perhaps the most open network in history. We have to keep it that way.”
Impressive, yeah? But does Obama have the sort of experience needed to implement that sort of broad-reaching Silicon Valley policy wish list? Asked just this question by a Google employee, Obama replied: “Sergey and Larry didn’t have a lot of experience starting this Fortune 100 company. I suppose when they came in and started talking to [Google General Counsel] Dave Drummond about starting a company, he could have said, ‘They don’t know what they’re doing.’”
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This is going to be alot of fun to see , if in fact Obama is elected as the next U.S. president,in how he is going to deal with the technology issue. And …LOL to Obama making a “pilgrimage”
Posted by Shawn Drewry at November 15th, 2007 at 3:01 pmObama as Mr. High Tech? For those who have little faith “Team Barack” has Steve Westly in his corner. Yes, Steve Westly…that Mr. eBay to you folks out there. Steve Westly is a “bundler” for Obama and mostly likely came up with this “technology policy”. Never mind that as State Controller Steve Westly could not fix one “tech” problem while State Controller. Hell he only ran for one term as Controller himself…anyway Go Obama…or just go.
Posted by juvencia romo at November 16th, 2007 at 2:38 am