Interesting the idea of Obama + Tech. His campaign was innovative in
the both the way he used the web for fundraising and for organizing
the troops.
Orlando recently sent a pointer to his next phase:
http://www.change.gov
.. which invites the community to start building a set of ideas for
how to make progress in Obama's main areas of interest.
It seems to me that Friam and sfComplex could help. Dave West's
innovative educational ideas, for example .. and possibly pushing for
a Ted-like (or Pangia Day like) web presence for educational media.
-- Owen
On Nov 7, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
fyi.
-tj
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From: Richard Lowenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Obama's Science and Innovation Plans
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From this week's State Science and Technology Institute newsletter:
http://www.ssti.org
Federal TBED Funding and Programs Could Expand under Obama
Administration
After two years of campaigning, President-elect Barack Obama has
begun shaping
the agenda for his coming administration. Though nothing is certain
at this
point, throughout his campaign, President-elect Obama reiterated his
support
for TBED-related initiatives and plans to increase funding for
research and
innovation. His Plan for Science and Innovation, released in
September, makes a
wide range of TBED commitments, touching on clean energy investment,
STEM
education, entrepreneurship and basic research.
Last month the New York Times, with research from the Information
Technology and
Innovation Foundation (ITIF), estimated the annual cost of Obama's
innovation
plan at $85.6 billion. The president-elect pledged during the
campaign to
double the current level of funding for basic research over the next
ten years
at federal science agencies and to fully fund the America Competes
Act, signed
by President George Bush, at $5.9 billion annually.
In order to foster private sector innovation, the Obama plan would
make the
research and development tax credit permanent, double funding for the
Manufacturing Extension Partnership, create an Advanced
Manufacturing Fund to
increase collaboration between university researchers and industry
and invest
in a nationwide network of public-private incubators. The plan would
also
increase research spending on defense and homeland security,
including DARPA
and Homeland Security ARPA.
The plan also called for: restoring the role of White House science
advisor to a
senior-level position, the Assistant to the President for Science
and Technology
would report directly to the President and would serve as Director
of the Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); and, strengthening the role
of the
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST),
which would
offer private sector and academic insight into federal innovation
policy.
Also included in the plan was a new $500 million Technology
Investment Fund that
would build on existing federal education technology programs by
offering
matching grants to ensure that technology is integrated in public
schools. The
funds would be used to introduce new high-tech learning tools, build
a new
technology-based curriculum and help connect teachers through social
networks
to increase collaboration. In order to improve the quality and
number of
science and technology educators, the plan called for 40,000
Teaching Service
scholarships of up to $25,000 each to increase the number of
teachers in
high-need subjects and underserved regions. Federal science,
technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM) education policy would be
coordinated by a
new STEM Education Committee in OSTP. This committee would also be
charged with
devising a new method of tracking student achievement in STEM
subjects.
At the university-level, the plan calls for tripling the number of
National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships from 1,000 to 3,000
and
creating a new Opportunity Tax Credit for college students. A
Community College
Partnership Program would help enhance STEM education at two-year
schools to
encourage community college students to transition into STEM
programs at
four-year universities.
Clean energy and green-collar jobs programs took center stage in
Obama's plan to
strengthen the U.S. economy. His New Energy for America plan called
for
investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private
efforts to
help commercialize clean energy advancements and to build the
infrastructure
for new fuel and electricity technology. An additional $50 billion
over the
next five years would capitalize a federal Clean Technologies
Deployment
Venture Capital Fund to invest in promising energy technology
projects. A new
$1 billion program would allocate funds to states to help convert
manufacturing
centers into producers of clean energy technology. The plan also
supported job
training programs for military veterans and disadvantaged youth to
get the
skills needed to find work in the green economy.
Find out more about President-elect Obama's Plan for Science and
Innovation at:
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/FactSheetScience.pdf
ITIF has published a breakdown of the costs of Obama's innovation
plan at:
http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=176
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President-Elect
transition web site: www.change.gov
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