Just what does President B. Hussein Obama have in store for the IT Industry?
I was checking out my daily news (via Simply Headlines
) and saw the heading “Obama unveils new presidential Web site” so I figured I’d go check it out.
To be honest, the site looks MUCH better. It’s clean, everything appears to be in order, you can actually find what you’re looking for. Anyways, that’s not the reason I’m here.
The reason I’m here today is to point out a little something I thought should be mentioned to those interested in the Intellectual Property being stolen from our Certification Vendors. The two following points were taken directly from this page (President Obama’s Agenda on Technology): http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/technology/
- Protect American Intellectual Property Abroad: Work to ensure intellectual property is protected in foreign markets, and promote greater cooperation on international standards that allow our technologies to compete everywhere.
- Protect American Intellectual Property at Home: Update and reform our copyright and patent systems to promote civic discourse, innovation, and investment while ensuring that intellectual property owners are fairly treated.
Of course there are many other points in his Technology Agenda, but since we (CertGuard) are primarily interested in the Intellectual Property of the Certification Vendors (which is being stolen from individuals abroad and at home), I wanted to bring these to light.
Not to shadow any of the REAL issues out there (like the economy, or Guantanamo Bay, or whatever else Bush did that is eating at you), but this is something that I will truly take an interest in over the course of the 44th President’s term.
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January 21st, 2009
I was on there too but must have missed that :o) I agree, the site looks very nice. It was a good upgrade from what it had previously looked like. It’ll be interesting to see how well those initiatives evolve over his term.
January 27th, 2009
Notice in the section titled “Prepare All our Children for the 21st Century Economy” this note about memorizing facts:
Improve and Prioritize Science Assessments: Work with governors and educators to ensure that state assessments measure higher order thinking skills including inference, logic and data analysis, not just rote memorization of facts.
But there is no mention whatsoever of the cheating problem in the US. Does it not rank? Do they not care? Or do they just not know about it?
Increase the values and ethics of the students (starting in pre-school) and see what that brings us in 20 years.
Good Blog! Thanks!!