Obama Offers Millions In Muslim Technology Fund
The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in...
The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in...
Colin Delany | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
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.
Colin Delany | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
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.
Colin Delany | Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology
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.
Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology
President Obama appointed Aneesh Chopra, Virginia's former technology secretary, as the nation's first chief technology officer and charged him with p...
Ari Melber | Posted 06.22.2009 | Media
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.
Paul Berry | Posted 07.01.2009 | Home
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.
Don Tapscott | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics
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...
Washington Post | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
The team that ran the most technologically advanced presidential campaign in modern history is finding it difficult to adapt that model to government....
Washington Post | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
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....
Aimee Liu | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
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.
David Hoffman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media
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.
Don Tapscott | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
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.
Timothy Karr | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media
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.
Jimmy Leach | Posted 12.25.2008 | Media
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.
Tracy Van Slyke | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
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.
Art Brodsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media
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.
Deanie Mills | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
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.
Tim O'Reilly | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
We need a president who is conversant with, and comfortable with, the power of technology to assist in solving America's problems.
Craig Newmark | Posted 09.15.2008 | Home
Obama sees the Internet as a means to clean up Washington. The McCain/Bush camp sees the Internet as a threat that might make them accountable. Which vision do you you prefer?
Art Brodsky | Posted 09.07.2008 | Media
McCain's technology policy history isn't simply one of being oblivious. It would be actively harmful to our economy and our standing in the world because it would chill competition and innovation.
breitbart.com | Posted 10.24.2009 | Technology