Inauguration Day: What Businesses Can Expect From The Obama Administration
As Barack Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States, bMighty looks at what the new administration will mean for your business in terms of small-business policy, technology, security and privacy, and more.
That Obama will have a CTO represents a huge step forward for government and technology. It sends the signal that technology is a priority for this administration. That Google CEO Eric Schmidt, rumored as a leading candidate, publically declared he didn't want the job indicates the limited authority of the role in practice. But policy and budget limitations don't diminish the importance of having a formal role for setting our national technology vision.
Even a tech-savvy White House can't compete with the technological innovation and flair of Silicon Valley, but Obama already has demonstrated a better grasp of how to harness IT than we've come to expect from government. From his dogged fight to keep his BlackBerry to his campaign's use of text messaging and YouTube to his transition team's use of Salesforce CRM Ideas to power a "citizen's briefing book" for gathering ideas, Obama and his organization seek technology to boost productivity, extend reach, enhance transparency, and foster collaboration -- a perspective long overdue inside the beltway.
Whether the West Wing will adopt cloud computing remains to be seen, but some of the tech-centric initiatives you may see include R&D tax credits, more H-1B visas, expanded broadband access, support for net neutrality, more open source software, emphasis on green technologies and alternative energy, and patent reform.
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