He knows my soft spot

Obama and his tech plan presented at Google–How did I not come across this? With the primaries in February, I’m still not 100% behind any one candidate so any new knowledge of policies will really help.

To briefly summarize some of the main proposals of Obama’s tech plans: Appointment of a Chief Technology Officer, contrasting W’s (So Maureen Dowd of me!) Cybersecurity Czar by ensuring “government officials hold open meetings, broadcast live webcasts of those meetings, and use blogging software, wikis and open comments to communicate policies with Americans” (VentureBeat.com). This seems very plausible to me, but the problem isn’t in having the necessary tools and technology but in establishing and delineating power for the position itself, maybe create a cabinet for the position. The other main issue was concerning net neutrality, which I’m not too adept with but he is strongly in favor of a free network and imposing neutrality mandates on broadband providers. I wish I knew more about it to do a more sufficient analysis.

Apparently Edwards has a very good one as well, but thoughts on that later (seeing as how I don’t know a thing about it yet).