As president-elect Barack Obama gets ready to take charged, there are a number of short and long term problems that really attract his attention.
As important as they all are, the next administration might do well to remember that we did not get into this global economic mess over night. As such, that means we’re not likely to get lost of if quickly either.
That’s why despite all the cries for help to protect various industries that consume a lot of information technology, the higher economic priority might be to invest more money in technology-driven infrastructure projects that have the potential to create all kinds of economic benefit for the global economy…
In a speech made last week, when he called on the next administration to invest more money in refurbishing the electronic grid system to reduce the amount of energy required to power it, make better use of information technology to reinvent the way healthcare is provided and green technology investments that would enhance traffic and mass transit systems to make everybody who depends on these systems more efficient.