Obama Technology

Alex Wagner

Obama Pushes Innovation to Fix Manufacturing Woes

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 08.24.2011

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Joking that "one of my responsibilities as commander-in-chief is to keep an eye on robots," President Obama on Friday announced a new public-private s...

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Obama Laments Lack Of 'Cool' Phones

AP | By JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 06.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Turns out President Barack Obama would like a phone upgrade. The president, in an unscripted moment with donors in Chicago, was talking...

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Sam Stein

Obama To Take First-Ever Presidential Question Via Skype

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Continuing his efforts to chart new territory with respect to the intersection of politics and technology, President Obama is set to take what appears...

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The Most Tech Savvy President--Who Ignores Older People

Saul Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Saul Friedman

Older people, who should be his natural constituency, are not as enamored with Obama as many younger voters. One reason they are ignored; most of the elderly don't use the internet.

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Winning Online in 2010: Tools, Time and Resources

Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011

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Colin Delany

Political professionals trained in the broadcast era often have trouble adapting to the back-and-forth nature of online media, but the rewards for embracing it can be tremendous.

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Obama Offers Millions In Muslim Technology Fund

breitbart.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in...

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Winning in 2010: Putting the Pieces Together

Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011

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Colin Delany

Not only will the new Congress help determine the fate of Barack Obama's remaining agenda, but the state legislators who take their seats in 2011 will redraw districts across the country.

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How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010

Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011

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Colin Delany

Obama's public image will shape the political environment in 2010, of course, but plenty of politicians and political professionals on all sides will also look to his ground-breaking online campaign as an inspiration.

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Winning in 2010: Online Outreach

Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011

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Colin Delany

Once a campaign has the basic technology in place, it can begin to take full advantage of the internet's ability to deliver donors, volunteers and voters.

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Winning Online: 10 Tips for 2010 Campaigns (Part II)

Matt Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matt Dunn

The reality is that Election Day 2010 is one year away. It's time for campaigns to start gearing up, and interactive needs to play a bigger role than it did in 2008 or 2009.

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Aneesh Chopra: Obama's CTO To "Reboot" America

Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama appointed Aneesh Chopra, Virginia's former technology secretary, as the nation's first chief technology officer and charged him with p...

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5 Tech Highlights From the First 100 Days

Paul Berry | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Berry

Normally, the campaigning tools and functions that are used to win an election are put aside while the country is being run. But Obama and his team have turned that on its head.

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President Obama: The Reality Show

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Melber

This is the first administration to fuse iterative, real-time lifestyle coverage with the star power of a true celebrity politician. So far, it is working.

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Some advice for Aneesh Chopra, Obama's New CTO

Don Tapscott | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don Tapscott

President Obama has announced the long awaited choice for his Chief Technology Officer -- Aneesh Chopra. Says Tim O'Reilly "Aneesh Chopra is a rock s...

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Technical Problems Plague WhiteHouse.gov Despite Tech-Savvy Team

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The team that ran the most technologically advanced presidential campaign in modern history is finding it difficult to adapt that model to government....

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Obama Faces White House Stuck In Dark Ages Of Technology

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past....

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Obamerica's Digital Congregation

Aimee Liu | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aimee Liu

Thanks to digital organizing, Obama now has a secular congregation as big as America. That congregation elected him. Now that same congregation is going to practice the values that he has preached.

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The Permanent Campaign Has No Borders

David Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Hoffman

Instead of pre-packaged messages broadcast overseas, building the capacity of local media and investigative reporters promotes transparency and creates a culture of democratic activism.

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Obama and the Reinvention of Democracy

Don Tapscott | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don Tapscott

President-elect Obama's mobilizing the millions of young people who supported his presidential campaign to help him as he prepares to govern a troubled country.

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Obama's Broadband Roadmap

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Timothy Karr

Obama has bravely stepped into an Internet void left by his predecessor. Over the past eight years, the U.S. has fallen from fourth to 15th in the world in terms of high-speed Internet adoption.

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Here to Stay?

Jimmy Leach | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jimmy Leach

During my short stint as head of digital communications for the Prime Minister, there wasn't a lack of will to try new ways of directly interacting with the citizens of the UK, but it didn't necessarily lead to a higher quality of debate or better outcomes.

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Obama's Right Hand: His Blackberry

Tracy Van Slyke | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tracy Van Slyke

I am nowhere near as important or on the same need-to-be-connected level as our soon-to-president, but you'd have to pry those communication tools out of my cold, dead hands.

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Obama Win Helps Tech, Could Hurt Hollywood

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Art Brodsky

From top to bottom, the Obama/Biden plan has just about everything the tech/Internet industry could ask for. But Hollywood is at a crossroads as it decides how to leverage its usual influence within a Democratic administration.

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Two Years of Inspiration

Deanie Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

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Deanie Mills

I have never seen a more exciting demonstration of democracy in action than what I have witnessed in the past two years, since I first read both of Obama's books and signed on as a volunteer.

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Why I Support Barack Obama

Tim O'Reilly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tim O'Reilly

We need a president who is conversant with, and comfortable with, the power of technology to assist in solving America's problems.

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