Archive for the ‘outline’ Category
to Obama – Chief Technology Officer
November 11, 2008The internet has the potential to be an amazing means to right the wrongs of the past and remain an agile society faced with resource depletion.
Network transmission must be kept free, open, and unbiased – that makes the rest possible. National effort must be put into solving some of the employment crisis by hiring people to build free access hardware, educational materials, independent media, governmental transparency, and bring it all back together with Democracy 2.0 online.
Power that with electricity from “green economy” energy infrastructure and you’ve got a bright future for this country.
For various reasons, these would be my picks for CTO in order of priority:
Brad Templeton of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia
Lawrence Lessig of the Creative Commons
Brewster of Internet Archive
Craig Newmark of Craigslist
Rob Malda of Slashdot.org