Intel CTO Shares Tech Priorities for Incoming President's CTO

posted by Alison Wesley on January 19, 2009

As President-Elect Barack Obama gets sworn in as president tomorrow and soon after appoints the country's first CTO, Intel CTO Justin Rattner has captured his thoughts and views from thousands of others on how the tech industry can help to advance efficiencies across government agencies, spur innovation and address the top technology initiatives (see his blog post today that includes his letter and the survey results).

Thanks to the thousands of individuals who participated in Intel's survey last week at the Consumer Electronics Show.  The top-level results and Justin's views are included below:

• Education: Along with investing more in K-12 education (basic math, science and technology skills), the administration needs to double NSF and DOE research budgets and enact a multi-year extension of the R&D tax credit.
  
• Environment: There is a need to establish a national policy around green technology and renewable energy and continue passing laws and policies designed to drive energy-efficiency.
  
• Broadband: We think government regulations and policies ought to enable, not impede, the broadband revolution. Incentives to make fast, affordable and high-quality broadband deployment needs to become a reality for all Americans.
  
• Healthcare: We need to implement a new national health care network system by connecting doctors, hospitals, labs and patients by 2012. We believe funding to training 10,000 health IT specialists in the next few years and deploying new health IT equipment will help reduce costly medical errors and drive down health costs.

Let us know what you think!