The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has given VentureBeat an exclusive look at his technology plan, which he plans to unveil officially tomorrow (Wednesday) before a visit to Google’s headquarters.
The full plan can be seen below. It contains several new proposals, including the appointment of technology czar called a Chief Technology Officer.
The CTO’s mandate would be quite different from the Cybersecurity czar appointed under the Bush Administration. Bush’s czar helped defend against cyberattacks. Obama’s CTO, by contrast, would ensure government officials hold open meetings, broadcast live webcasts of those meetings, and use blogging software, wikis and open comments to communicate policies with Americans, according to the plan.
The plan extends Obama’s previous advocacy for more open decision making in government. It’s likely to play well here in Silicon Valley, because much of it relies on technology. The announcement is significant, too, because Obama comes to California seeking to bolster his standings here, where he currently trails frontrunner Sen. Hilary Clinton in most opinion polls. Nationally, Obama has come to a moment of truth in his campaign, a testing of whether he can cross the racial divide. Here in the valley, though, he’s right at home, where the local tech leaders and VCs have given him strong support (see our coverage here and here).
VentureBeat will be reaching to other campaigns over ensuing weeks, including those of Sen. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, to discuss their policies on tech.
A copy of Obama’s new technology plans, which covers everything from providing new subsidies for internet broadband access, to increased permanent visas for immigrants, was given to VentureBeat Tuesday morning, and I was offered a chance to discuss it with several of Obama’s campaign managers. Here’s what I concluded: First, the plan represent the most comprehensive set of policies for open government I’ve seen.
I. OPEN GOVERNMENT
He wants Cabinet officials, government executives and rulemaking agencies to hold meeting that are open to the public and transmitted with a live feed. The CTO’s mandate will be to ensure this happens. Specifically, Obama wants the public to be able to comment on the White House website for five days before legislation is signed.
II. BROADBAND ACCESS
Second, Obama makes new stances on several other areas of technology of interest to Silicon Valley’s tech community. He calls more aggressive government support of broadband access. Specifically, he calls for subsidies for phone carriers to be given to only those carriers offering both regular phone service and Internet broadband to rural areas. To date, carriers offering merely phone service have been able to claim subsidies from the so-called Universal Service Fund, giving them little incentive to roll out out broadband. This is also new, in that he hasn’t proposed this before.
III. OPEN WIRELESS SPECTRUM
Obama’s plan also calls for reviewing the decision by the Federal Communications Commission to open the wireless spectrum for competition. Specifically, Obama feels the FCC may not have gone far enough with its recent ruling. He is strongly considering advocating that spectrum on the 700 MHz band be opened so that third parties can lease it on a wholesale basis. This will ensure winners of a pending auction for the spectrum — expected to be large phone carriers like Verizon — don’t just sit on the spectrum and not use it. They may do that to avoid other entrants from competing with them. Obama’s campaign also appears ready to support the right of service providers to interconnect with a licensee’s wireless network. Google is expected to bid on the wireless spectrum.
IV. NETWORK NEUTRALITY
Obama also is supporting network neutrality, a policy that would ensure Google wouldn’t be forced to pay an Internet service provider extra to ensure the speedy transfer of its data over the Internet. Stanford legal expert, Larry Lessig, called me up this afternoon (apparently under recommendation from the campaign) saying Obama has the most nicely balanced policy among the democrats. Obama’s plan, he says, imposes minimal regulatory burden. So: Unlike John Edwards who, proposes to “enforce net neutrality ensuring no degradation or blocking of access to websites,” Obama would not ban differential service. He would simply require that the terms offered one website or company are no better or worse than those offered anyone else. This is a kind of “most favored nations” network neutrality, much simpler to enforce than one that looks to technical factors to determine whether the regulation is obeyed. Venture people should be very interested in this, Lessig says, because “if network neutrality regulation is going to be passed (as it will if a Dem is president) this imposes a very minimal (and relatively easy to monitor) burden on network owner.”
V. IMMIGRATION
Obama’s plan calls for a review of the H1-B visa program. First, the plan calls for ways increased training of Americans so that they can fill the technology jobs requiring a Bachelor’s degree — thus minimizing the demand by companies for immigrants to fill those jobs.
At the same time, Obama’ plan seeks to address another shortcoming of the H1-B program, which is that immigrants with short-term visas find it difficult to stay because of country-specific caps on permanent visas. A large number of short-term visa new arrivals are from China and India, but the country-specific cap on permanent visas means many Chinese and Indians are held in limbo for years. All the while, they’re unable to move freely between jobs — leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by employers.
VI. PRIVACY
On privacy, Obama will call for the creation of what he calls “Public Media 2.0.” While vague on details, campaign managers said Obama hopes to bring Tivo-like technologies so parents can ensure safe TV viewing. Obama also wants to raise sanctions against companies offering indecent – violent or sexually explicit – content.
VII. SILICON VALLEY SUPPORT
Also tomorrow, several well-known local players are expected to announce their support for Obama’s plan, including two former FCC Chairmen under President Clinton, Lessig and John Roos, chief executive of Silicon Valley’s respected law firm, Wilson Sonsini. In fact, Roos also called me earlier today. Roos said Obama’s proposal a few days ago for a clean technology venture capital fund, to be backed by a whopping $50 billion in federal funding for five years, is particularly encouraging.
Finally, Lessig pointed out another issue no one is talking about — though related to the issue of open government I talked about above. All sorts of amazing innovations like Maplight.org and Sunlightfoundation.com are building new tools to monitor government — to track influence, identify corruption, etc. They’ve all been hampered by the fact that government data (by design or accident) is impossibly difficult to get access to. Obama wants to make the raw data available: “So think about all the value that gets added to the free weather data given away by the government. This is the same idea in the context of data to make government more transparent, and less corrupt.”
Below is the plan (RSS readers will have to visit the site, since it is a Flash file).
25 Comments
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Gold said:
I must admit I like Obama - now if only he’ll deport illegal aliens, end chain migration, and end citizenship by birth I might consider voting for him instead of Tacredo.
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Midwest Tech Investor said:
Obama is by far the best candidate in the presidential race — he can unite the country to solve the tough problems…It’s not an accident that very smart folks like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and many prominent VCs are backing Obama.
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Clara said:
I’m not sure about his H1-B visa plan. Basically the idea is to aid current immigrant workers in hi-tech fields so that they have more freedom to move between jobs (an idealistic promise to say the least) and increase education of Americans to fill those jobs. How does he think he will increase Americans’ interest in these jobs? He’s recognized that there is a potential problem but faces the conundrum like many political leaders to actually solve these problems without compromising his diplomacy. That’s the difference between H Clinton and Obama. She’s just downright rude and gets what she wants, while Obama is very diplomatic so it’s hard for us to tell if he will really come through with what he says he will do because he may not have all the resources that he needs.
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Shane said:
When John Edwards came to Stanford a year ago, I asked him about universal broadband access as a possible position in the dem platform. He laughed it off at the time. Looks like the only serious candidate with his eyes on the tech frontier is the man I’ve supported all along. Seriously, make a clear headed choice this time- I’m looking at you Iowa.
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Gia said:
I don’t live in the U.S but actively keep a close eye on world affairs.So far Obama seems like the best choice from all the candidates.
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Debbie said:
All the while, they’re unable to move freely between jobs — leaving them vulnerable to exploration by employers.
–Hi, great article, but I think you meant exploitation
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gam3boy said:
First off, it seems that Gold up at the top suffers from a “Mine! Mine!!” mentality. Straighten out your priorities, man. Did you SEE that Tancredo ad? I guess it has its appeal, if you’re the Jerry Springer type.
The reality is, illegal immigrants are here to stay. Signing some new legislation isn’t going to magically make them disappear; more importantly, America’s economic infrastructure probably depends on them more than one might think. Even MORE importantly, illegal immigrants are people too, you insensitive prick. This country was built by them. Each and every one of them is here for the same reason: it was even worse where they came from. Now, is America the great melting pot, the Land of Opportunity I thought it was, or is it a place where people like you can sit on your asses and complain all day about how the world can’t move fast enough to make them happy, while not a single selfless thought passes through their brains? Get off your high horse, man.
And now, onto my main comment:
Obama rocks my socks off.
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Matt Marshall said:
Thanks, debbie, fixed
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Bryan K said:
The country wasn’t built on illegal aliens…you idiot [GAM3BOY]
It was built on people that were hard workers; wanted to learn enligsh; and assimilated. These illegal aliens are a bunch of hispanics that speak whatever language they want, don’t pay taxes, and are ruining our health care system and public education system.
But I do like the tech ideas that Obama has…
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Gold said:
GAMEBOY: You seem to think our organizing principle should be: Good For Everybody In The Whole World!
That is so preposterous I can’t even summon up any admiration for the high idealism that must underlie such a position. Perhaps you are familiar with Pascal’s wise observation that while man is neither angel nor beast, he who would act the angel acts the beast.
I don’t myself believe that America needs more people to keep our economy running smoothly. There was very nearly no immigration at all into the U.S.A. from 1945 to 1965, yet the economy boomed as never before. How did that happen? A national economy is a very flexible and ingenious thing, certainly able to cope with shortages, of labor or anything else, by means other than immigration. It might raise wages, or automate, or outsource. Indeed, many economists tell us that automation, and technological advance in general, is retarded by a large supply of cheap manual labor.
I do not want these people. I don’t think I am a callous person—I am pretty sure than no-one who knows me would describe me so—but I am not generous towards strangers with things I own that are precious to me, that I have struggled and sweated to acquire. If the stranger has a hard-luck story I may do him the courtesy of listening to it; but the world, you know, is full of hard-luck stories.
Of course we can deport 12 million people if we want to. Our nation has, by acts of collective will, done far more difficult things than that. If sensible policies were implemented, great numbers of illegal immigrants would anyway self-deport.
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Tony said:
About net neutrality, what are your thoughts?
It comes to this:
1. Do you want to invite the government into regulating the internet?
or
2. Would you rather rely on the free market.The Net Neutrality bill is yet another example of a bill that sounds like a good idea, but once you give the government the right to regulate the internet, where will it stop.
“Net-Neutrality” is inviting the government onto the internet to regulate it, vs. companies deciding how to regulate it based on the free market
Ask yourself this. Would you like to invite the FCC control of the internet? Or an FCC-type bureaucracy? I’d rather keep the government out of it..
IOW, Net Neutrality is a bandaid.
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Cam said:
TONY:
Except that Net Neutrality used to be required when broadband was classified as a communications service. A couple of years ago, the FCC was convinced (one can only wonder by whom) to change the status to an information service, to which the common carriers regulations do not apply. So all this hoo-ha about “too much regulation” is unfounded, the Internet used to have Net Neutrality and now that it’s gone people are worried (which is understandable). For companies, capitalism means increasing profits and decreasing costs. For consumers, this means paying more for worse service. -
Alex K said:
I would include more in the article from Obama’s document on privacy. See pages 3-4, section: “Safeguard our Right to Privacy.”
My opinion on privacy:
I would love for Obama to address the issue of oversight. I am all for giving our security institutions the tools they need. However data should only be gathered on supposed terrorists, and oversight should be used to insure that those tools aren’t being abused. We’re at a critical time where the government can now begin to collect data on most of its citizens: The next president needs to set precedent that the data collected and the tools themselves won’t be abused. -
C Johnson said:
Well he is about the only one that is making sense now. So far he looks good. But I want to see what else he plans to do… Health care, Our Children’s Education is also on my top list. And no one is breathing a word on what they plan to do. As another thing that worries me is these top businesses outsourcing, and or moving to other countries, and leaving us Americans without a job. You just don’t know what this is like until it happens to you after you put years of your sweat into a company.
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bob dobbs said:
This is a technique to get civilian populations to expose their political and social information to government wiretaps. The 4th amendment protects us.
for the public forum let us discuss the federal reserve and council on foreign relations.
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Stephen said:
I don’t need the government to waste my taxpayer dollars to hire someone to teach them how to use technology. No thanks. Learn on your own like I did. Gad.
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John said:
Great, so I’ll have to pay communication companies as an incentive to roll out broadband access to rural areas. Thats just where I want my hard earned money to go..
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urb said:
I’m impressed that Obama has put forth a unique and relevant vision for how technology can be used more effectively in government. This is another indication that he has a different perspective, focus, and approach for our country.
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Leandro Haegger said:
Very Good Article. Thanks.
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Leandro Haegger said:
Very Good Article
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Leandro Haegger said:
Very well.
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Leandro Haegger said:
Nice. Thanks.
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KKdai said:
Our Children’s Education is also on my top list. And no one is breathing a word on what they plan to do
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