11.03.08

5 Key IT Affecting Decisions the Next President has to Make

Posted in Information Systems/Technology at 8:43 pm by Paul Ambrose

Jason Hiner at Tech Republic discusses the following important IT issues facing us in the near term on his blog.

  1. Net-Neutrality: This proposed legislation would prevent telecommunications providers from controlling, prioritizing, or filtering the types of applications and content that Internet customers use.
  2. Broadband Development: The US is lagging behind in the penetration and affordability of broadband connections. Lack of competition and over-consolidation due to current US policies and regulations are hampering the growth of broadband in a consumer friendly manner.
  3. R&D Tax Credit: The US is the home to some of the best and brightest IT innovators (such as Apple, Microsoft [yes!], and Google) and we need to foster innovation by incentizing them to continue investing in R&D.
  4. H1B Visas: We need these to continue staffing high tech companies with engineers and computer scientists.
  5. Green Tech: IT can be revolutionized to be more earth friendly, but it is an expensive proposition. Tax breaks would help.

You can access the full article on Jason’s blog.