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"Let us be the generation that reshapes our economy to compete in the digital age. Let's set high standards for our schools and give them the resources they need to succeed. Let's recruit a new army of teachers, and give them better pay and more support in exchange for more accountability. Let's make college more affordable, and let's invest in scientific research, and let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America."

-- Barack Obama Presidential Announcement Speech in Springfield, IL
February 10 ,2007

The Obama-Biden Technology Plan
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden understand the immense transformative power of technology and innovation and how they can improve the lives of Americans. They will work to ensure the full and free exchange of information through an open Internet and use technology to create a more transparent and connected democracy. They will encourage the deployment of modern communications infrastructure to improve America's competitiveness and employ technology to solve our nation's most pressing problems -- including improving clean energy, healthcare costs, and public safety.

Ensure the Full and Free Exchange of Ideas through an Open Internet and Diverse Media Outlets

• Protect the Openness of the Internet: Support the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.
• Encourage Diversity in Media Ownership: Encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation's spectrum.
• Protect Our Children While Preserving the First Amendment: Give parents the tools and information they need to control what their children see on television and the Internet in ways fully consistent with the First Amendment. Support tough penalties, increase enforcement resources and forensic tools for law enforcement, and encourage collaboration between law enforcement and the private sector to identify and prosecute people who try to exploit children online.
• Safeguard our Right to Privacy: Strengthen privacy protections for the digital age and harness the power of technology to hold government and business accountable for violations of personal privacy.

Create a Transparent and Connected Democracy

• Open Up Government to its Citizens: Use cutting-edge technologies to create a new level of transparency, accountability, and participation for America's citizens.
• Bring Government into the 21st Century: Use technology to reform government and improve the exchange of information between the federal government and citizens while ensuring the security of our networks. Appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure the safety of our networks and lead an interagency effort, working with chief technology and chief information officers of each of the federal agencies, to ensure that they use best-in-class technologies and share best practices.

Deploy a Modern Communications Infrastructure

Deploy Next-Generation Broadband: Work towards true broadband in every community in America through a combination of reform of the Universal Service Fund, better use of the nation's wireless spectrum, promotion of next-generation facilities, technologies and applications, and new tax and loan incentives. America should lead the world in broadband penetration and Internet access.

Improve America's Competitiveness

• Promote American Businesses Abroad: Support a trade policy that ensures our goods and services are treated fairly in foreign markets. Fight for fair treatment of our companies abroad.
• Invest in the Sciences: Double federal funding for basic research over ten years, changing the posture of our federal government to one that embraces science and technology.
• Invest in University-Based Research: Expand research initiatives at American colleges and universities. Provide new research grants to the most outstanding early-career researchers in the country.
• Make the R&D Tax Credit Permanent: Invest in a skilled research and development workforce and technology infrastructure. Make the Research and Development tax credit permanent so that firms can rely on it when making decisions to invest in domestic R&D over multi-year timeframes.
• Ensure Competitive Markets: Foster a business and regulatory landscape in which entrepreneurs and small businesses can thrive, start-ups can launch, and all enterprises can compete effectively while investors and consumers are protected against bad actors that cross the line. Reinvigorate antitrust enforcement to ensure that capitalism works for consumers.
• 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.
• Reform the Patent System: Ensure that our patent laws protect legitimate rights while not stifling innovation and collaboration. Give the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) the resources to improve patent quality and open up the patent process to citizen review to help foster an environment that encourages innovation. Reduce uncertainty and wasteful litigation that is currently a significant drag on innovation.
• Restore Scientific Integrity to the White House: Restore the basic principle that government decisions should be based on the best-available, scientifically-valid evidence and not on ideological predispositions.

Prepare All our Children for the 21st Century Economy

• Make Math and Science Education a National Priority: Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession and support efforts to help these teachers learn from professionals in the field. Work to ensure that all children have access to a strong science curriculum at all grade levels.
• 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.
• Address the Dropout Crisis: Provide funding to school districts to invest in intervention strategies in middle school -- strategies such as personal academic plans, teaching teams, parent involvement, mentoring, intensive reading and math instruction, and extended learning time.
• Pinpoint College Aid for Math and Science Students: Launch an online database to give potential future scientists access to information about financial aid opportunities available in science and technology fields through the federal government and public or private resources.
• Increase Science and Math Graduates: Improve science and math education in K through 12 to prepare more students for these studies in college. Work to increase our number of science and engineering graduates and encourage undergraduates studying math and science to pursue graduate studies. Increase the representation of minorities and women in the science and technology pipeline, tapping the diversity of America to meet the increasing demand for a skilled workforce.

Prepare Adults for a Changing Economy

• Lifelong Retraining: Reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act, and increase resources for community colleges and lifelong learning initiatives to ensure our citizens can continue to gain new skills throughout their lifetimes. Modernize and expand the existing system of trade adjustment assistance to include service sector workers hurt by changing trade patterns. Create flexible education accounts that workers can use to retrain.
• Build a Reliable Safety Net: Through their proposals on portable health care and retirement savings accounts and expanding unemployment insurance, Obama and Biden will work for programs that will help Americans facing job transitions in a fierce global economy.

Employ Science, Technology and Innovation to Solve Our Nation's Most Pressing Problems

21st-century technology and telecommunications have flattened communications and labor markets and have contributed to a period of unprecedented innovation, making us more productive, connected global citizens. By maximizing the power of technology, we can strengthen the quality and affordability of our health care, advance climate-friendly energy development and deployment, improve education throughout the country, and ensure that America remains the world's leader in technology. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will:

• Lower Health Care Costs by Investing in Electronic Information Technology Systems: Use health information technology to lower the cost of health care. Invest $10 billion a year over the next five years to move the U.S. health care system to broad adoption of standards-based electronic health information systems, including electronic health records.
• Invest in Climate-Friendly Energy Development and Deployment: Invest $150 billion over the next ten years to enable American engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid. This investment will transform the economy and create 5 million new jobs.
• Modernize Public Safety Networks: Spur the development and deployment of new technologies to promote interoperability, broadband access, and more effective communications among first responders and emergency response systems.
• Advance the Biomedical Research Field: Support investments in biomedical research, as well as medical education and training in health-related fields. Fund biomedical research, and make it more efficient by improving coordination both within government and across government/private/non-profit partnerships.
• Advance Stem Cell Research: Support increased stem cell research. Allow greater federal government funding on a wider array of stem cell lines.

100 years of Taxes - 1909 to 2009: The Peoples Open Source Tax Code at Work 2009 through 2109, an open source development proposal for Cincinnati.

Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

– Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist

Cincinnati Change plans to create a financial instrument capable of financing a revolutionary health care prototype infrastructure for Ohio, based on established technology. It will be capable of supporting people nationwide with best practice health care and open source economic development tied to a comprehensive housing program that Erases the Digital Divide by embedding technology into homes that reduces their long term operating cost and improve the lives of residents.

We are a government of citizens in the midst of historic change. Over the next 4 years, the 44th president will be able to set policy for the next 100 years, like another President did, 100 years ago.

In Cincinnati, we will raise funds to create the vehicle to buy 20,000 troubled and/or foreclosed mortgages in Southern Ohio as part of our solution to erase the Development Divide. This will be done in conjunction with property owned by investors who are willing to work with Cincinnati Change and its partners, negotiating the restructuring existing debt will have the option of exercising subscription rights to new debt.

We plan to issue new debt instruments that will be used to put people to work. We will use our open Web 2.0 study of the current tax code to maximize a program that puts people to work in Southern Ohio. We will concentrate principally in infrastructure with a focus on MSD [through 2029], health care, education, technology, energy and reconstruction in Southern Ohio through tax increment financing and other revisions to the tax code through Open Source Solutions to Erasing the Development Divide and American financial crisis.

Cincinnati Change will appeal to all levels of government and use in its application US government programs that can be executed by the public/private alliance Cincinnati Change is assembling.

To implement this, our attorneys will be required to develop, under OMB A-76 Authority, an order that will support export growth based on a 4 year plan to service people around the world starting with the Cincinnati Empowerment Zone with its 50,000 residents and 68,000 employees working for over 3,000 employers.

Our offerings will be centered around digital services in support of economic development, career support, social [L.I.S.W.] services, human [The NET Video] and health care [OneCommunity] that supports a super set of International Standards Organization [ISO] 26000.

This Cincinnati Change Chairwoman, Wanda J Lloyd Daniels, will work with Unions while the AEC/GM team will be led by Fred Hargrove Sr. PE, MBA [who is also a licensed master plumber] and the contracted HUD and Tax Code programs will be directed Dr. Robert Day.

The workshop will be presented at the William Howard Taft National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Site) from 12 to 4 on this Thursday and Friday, Dec.11th and 12th, 2008.

Cincinnati Change's Universal Access Program

Cincinnati Change, an Ohio not for profit company established in 1998, believes that one of the prime causes of crime is poverty and that we can change the conditions from which crime takes root in Southern Ohio is creating with McGraw Daniels, LLC (MDi) as its minority partner and contractor.

Cincinnati Change, through MDi, is creating collaborative small business development program that uses universal broadband internet to address poverty through building technology into homes using a motivational support skill-set-training job creation initiative .

It is Cincinnati Change’s mission to change the conditions in which children live so that they can grow up and become productive adults in a nurturing and supportive community environment where they have equal access to the global digital world.

We plan of developing a county wide network using foreclosed and troubled homes as network access points in their reworked loans.

Erase the Digital Divide (Universal Access Broadband) National Policy

The United States currently has no national broadband policy to offer every American access to affordable high-speed Internet connections. "Broadband will soon be an indispensable communication technology affecting the way we learn, the way we work, and the way we communicate," stated Charles Benton, chairman and CEO of the Benton Foundation. "However, at the dawn of this Digital Age, those who could benefit the most from this economically empowering technology are also those most likely to be left without access because of where they live or how much money they make." Roughly half of the country's households still lack broadband connections, and the United States continues to fall further behind with less than 79 million home out of the 120 million homes in the United States (US Census Data) connected to a broadband network. We will demonstrate for the next President a solution in Hamilton County that Eases the Digital Divide.

Cincinnati Change intends to partner to leverage financial instruments in Southern Ohio with Federal, State and local public funding and private capital building in Cincinnati under the Community Reinvestment Act. Cincinnati Change will use MDi and its partner OneCommunity to combine technology company investment and gifts together in support of Greater Cincinnati’s underserved communities while fostering best of class public service technology for all of Cincinnati’s residents. This technology can then be used on a day to day basis as a service bureau for other governmental agencies who can act as revenue anticipation stakeholders thereby reducing their capital expediters.

The business model we will utilized to foster the ability to acquire and/or repair existing buildings that will house technologies supporting the Cincinnati Change Universal Access Program, which will adopt the MDi & OneCommunity Universal Access Program for implementation in Southern Ohio. Under Cincinnati Change, each house in the City of Cincinnati will have fiber installed and a wireless network access point connected to an open source server and sensor package.

Cincinnati Change which has been a member of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) who since its inception in 1990 has spearheaded the economic justice movement. NCRC is the nation’s trade association for economic justice. Cincinnati Change has been a member since 2000. We have and will continue to draw on the expertise and experience of the board members and staff of NCRC in developing Cincinnati Change’s plans. Through NCRC, Cincinnati Change is associated with more than 600 community-based institutions (including public sector agencies and elected officials) that promote access to basic banking services, including credit and savings. Cincinnati Change’s goal, like NCRC’s, is to create and sustain affordable housing, job development and vibrant communities for America's working families.

NCRC’s mission dovetails with Cincinnati Change’s in building wealth in traditionally underserved communities in Greater Cincinnati and bringing low and or moderate-income people in Southern Ohio into the new financial mainstream being shaped daily. NCRC members have constituents in every state in both rural and urban areas. The organization has held ongoing meetings with major financial institutions and, on 9/21/08, with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve System’s Offices in Washington DC in regards to the current financial crisis.

Cincinnati Change believes that declining assets in the form of foreclosures are dragging down the economy Continued shortsighted attempts to provide liquidity to financial institutions will not resolve the issue unless Americans have equal relief.

Like Cincinnati Change, the Board of Directors of NCRC believe that before acting to shore up Wall Street, the government should first provide assistance to homeowners to avoid foreclosure, the core problem rocking the financial system, and then act to help Wall Street out of its current crisis.

Cincinnati Change is creating collaborative motivational support skill-set-training job creation initiative and small business development program to address poverty through remodeling and rebuilding 20,000 homes in Hamilton County. It is Cincinnati Change’s mission to change the conditions in which children live so that they can grow up and become productive adults in a nurturing and supportive community environment where they have equal access to the global digital world through this program. Cincinnati Change for operations will be carried out through a regional public private partnership called Lloyd Daniels Hargrove and Company which will supply the region with the following ongoing services:

(1) total knowledge management of audio recordings, video programs, game consoles & computer based games, digital entertainment and other knowledge products;

(2) internet services including mobile broadband while operating for southern Ohio a significant Intranet connected to over 1,000 public sector agencies and not for profit organizations;

(3) creation of audio, video, broadcast, communications & computing technology resale operation to be the supplier of services, sales and support for installation of technology into buildings,

(4) creation of a distance learning network that improves the overall economy of Ohio that has built into it collaborative motivational support skill-set-training and job creation programs that use technology to increase their usefulness to the user and cost effectiveness to the underwriter;

(5) creation of network operating centers (NOC) in Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Dayton that support a wireless broadband network cloud that will pass by 2 million Ohioans and 200,000 employers.

(6) operation of regulated domestic and global mobile virtual networks and unregulated wireless services that support a mobile network for public safety personnel, first responders, increased homeland security, improved eHealth and providing a mobile network for public personnel;

(7) fiber to the edge networks for sites in southern Ohio with an emphasis on health care provides and patients in need of remote telemetry for home health care;

(8) developing broadband wireless network access points built into buildings in southern Ohio;

(9) erasing the digital divide for those in need in southern Ohio on a means tested basis, and;.

(10) having a core competency in consulting and next generation Power Distribution, Communications and Computing Technology with an emphasis as a Architect, Engineering and Construction Management of health care facilities.