Dear Potus: Wednesday evening results

A read-only view of the results-in-progress from wednesday evening, using the wiki magic of "transclusion".

(currently occasionally messed up because of Mediawiki bugs)

Table 2
How to get more attention on tech policy


 * Skywriting - potential text: (a) Privacy Matters; (b) Access Now
 * Technological Meltdown - "The Internet Valdez"
 * Color-coded warning system
 * Threat of Cyberwar: The Internet is stockpiling WMD.
 * Mainstream Media - offer free food.
 * Celebrity Endorsements
 * Holding the Media Accountable
 * FTP = WMD
 * Broadband is Sputnik

Topics Needing More Attention


 * Openness (Innovation and Open Standards)
 * Cyber-harassment
 * Education - Internet, new media
 * Data Protection
 * Digital Divide/Broadband Divide
 * Data Mining
 * Internet Filtering
 * History of Intelligence community

Areas with Superficial Coverage


 * Sexual Harassment Online
 * Danger of Social Networks
 * The Internet is a Threat to Our Kids
 * Corporations are Evil. Google is a corporation. Therefore, Google is evil.
 * Govt. Data Mining - extraordinary threats to civil liberties
 * Everything media (both old & new) is superficial
 * Structural Pre-Conditions of Innovation
 * Lack of Transparency

Technology Policy Categories


 * Privacy
 * Broadband Access
 * Privacy is Security
 * Govt. Surveillance
 * Digital Education
 * Intellectual Property
 * Digital Person
 * Private Database Regulation
 * Media Concentration
 * Global Public Sphere
 * Net Neutrality
 * Translating old ideas to new
 * Censorship
 * International Blockage
 * e-Voting
 * Cosmopolitanism
 * Bioethics

Miscellaneous, pt. 1

Getting Attention ... Do Nothing, Boycott, Blackout on the Internet. Surveillance as a Security Threat. 2 types of fear: 1) For Us and 2) For Them Hope Defeats Fear Fuse the idea of threats and concentration of power Distributed info = security

Miscellaneous, pt. 2

Potential Celebrity Endorsements

Potential Digital Rights Mascot

People Who Should be Subject to Congressional Hearings in the First 100 Days

Places that Should Have Better Cell-Phone Reception