Jump-starting our tech policy

[Commentary] President Bush is credited with "benign neglect" when it comes to technology policy. Some see that as a positive as we've seen an age of Wikipedia, search engines, YouTube, and Facebook. Others see this as an area that needs to be fixed by the next President. Wu offers four suggestions: 1) Appoint a broadband czar to help achieve a simple goal: to put the United States back into undisputed leadership in wireless and wire-line broadband. 2) Create the FCC dream team: search far and wide (yes, even outside of Washington, D.C.) for the wisest tech experts and visionaries. 3) Fix international tech policy: staff the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative with some of the best and brightest. 4) The technology of transparent government: One of the great and enduring accomplishments of the Bush administration was that it undermined once and for all the argument that the best decisions are made in secret.
http://www.slate.com/id/2187740/pagenum/all/

* The many overlaps of politics and technology
[SOURCE: InfoWorld, AUTHOR: Mark Gibbs, Network World]
[Commentary] A look at why politics and technology are inseparable -- and why people in technology industries should care.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/27/Politics-and-technology_1.html...