{"id":1187,"date":"2008-11-07T19:56:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T18:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2008-11-07T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T18:56:28","slug":"obama-the-transition-and-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Obama, the Transition and the Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 href=\"http:\/\/www.change.gov\/\">a new web site<\/a> which will announce all the new appointments and full details of the transition process.<br \/>\nWe 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.<br \/>\nGenachowski, who served at the Federal Communications Commission as chief counsel to former Chairman Reed Hundt, has already been active in Obama&#8217;s campaign by advising him on technology policies as chairman of the president-elect&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/issues\/technology\/\">Technology and Innovation Plan<\/a>. The Plan includes strong support for network neutrality and an aim \u201cto get true broadband to every community in America\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}