Obama, the Transition and the Net
The Internet was a central tool in the election campaign run by Barack Obama and, only days into the crucial transition, he has launched a new web site which will announce all the new appointments and full details of the transition process.
We can expect a pro-science, pro-technology administration from President Obama and he has appointed Julius Genachowski to help him choose members of his new administration which could signal the prominence of high-tech policy.
Genachowski, who served at the Federal Communications Commission as chief counsel to former Chairman Reed Hundt, has already been active in Obama’s campaign by advising him on technology policies as chairman of the president-elect’s Technology and Innovation Plan. The Plan includes strong support for network neutrality and an aim “to get true broadband to every community in America”.