A Washington Post tech blogger reports that President-elect Barak Obama has named a team to guide technology policy for the administration: Julius Genachowski (former chief counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, former senior executive at IAC), Sonal Shah (head of global development at Google.org) and Blair Levin (telecommunications policy analyst and consultant). Previous appointments around tech policy include Susan Crawford (Michigan Law School) and Kevin Wernach (World of Wharton), recently named to Obama’s FCC transition team, with more appointments to follow. Obama appears to be striking the right balance between academics, policy wonks, and practitioners. He has hired former insiders who also appear to have the right “Silicon Valleyues” of innovation and openness.
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It is especially gratifying that the President Elect in not pitter-pattering around with appointing shallow intellects who have overt agendas.
Although many of the appointments to date do not require consent and approval of the Senate, I think Mr. Obama is certainly looking for the constructs that will get the jobs done.
Steve
I agree, Steve. I really only have one concern: will the Administration take a hard line on the privacy issues around online advertising, given that a former Google employee (albeit Google.org, a separate entity) and a former senior executive at IAC are setting policy? I have to assume, with no evidence to the contrary, that such thoughtful people will shed any previous industry biases in thinking about the problems that face the Internet. Interested in all thoughts.
Obama really know what he is doing and is striking the correct balance.
he is doing and is striking the correct balance.
After appointing Barak Obama the president of the USA - the country changed completely.
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