Obama's Science and Innovation Plans

[Tom Johnson]

fyi.
-tj


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From: Richard Lowenberg <[hidden email]>
Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Obama's Science and Innovation Plans
To: [hidden email]


>From this week's State Science and Technology Institute newsletter:
http://www.ssti.org

Federal TBED Funding and Programs Could Expand under Obama Administration
After two years of campaigning, President-elect Barack Obama has begun shaping
the agenda for his coming administration. Though nothing is certain at this
point, throughout his campaign, President-elect Obama reiterated his support
for TBED-related initiatives and plans to increase funding for research and
innovation. His Plan for Science and Innovation, released in September, makes a
wide range of TBED commitments, touching on clean energy investment, STEM
education, entrepreneurship and basic research.

Last month the New York Times, with research from the Information Technology and
Innovation Foundation (ITIF), estimated the annual cost of Obama's innovation
plan at $85.6 billion. The president-elect pledged during the campaign to
double the current level of funding for basic research over the next ten years
at federal science agencies and to fully fund the America Competes Act, signed
by President George Bush, at $5.9 billion annually.

In order to foster private sector innovation, the Obama plan would make the
research and development tax credit permanent, double funding for the
Manufacturing Extension Partnership, create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to
increase collaboration between university researchers and industry and invest
in a nationwide network of public-private incubators. The plan would also
increase research spending on defense and homeland security, including DARPA
and Homeland Security ARPA.

The plan also called for: restoring the role of White House science advisor to a
senior-level position, the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
would report directly to the President and would serve as Director of the Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); and, strengthening the role of the
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which would
offer private sector and academic insight into federal innovation policy.

Also included in the plan was a new $500 million Technology Investment Fund that
would build on existing federal education technology programs by offering
matching grants to ensure that technology is integrated in public schools. The
funds would be used to introduce new high-tech learning tools, build a new
technology-based curriculum and help connect teachers through social networks
to increase collaboration. In order to improve the quality and number of
science and technology educators, the plan called for 40,000 Teaching Service
scholarships of up to $25,000 each to increase the number of teachers in
high-need subjects and underserved regions. Federal science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM) education policy would be coordinated by a
new STEM Education Committee in OSTP. This committee would also be charged with
devising a new method of tracking student achievement in STEM subjects.

At the university-level, the plan calls for tripling the number of National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships from 1,000 to 3,000 and
creating a new Opportunity Tax Credit for college students. A Community College
Partnership Program would help enhance STEM education at two-year schools to
encourage community college students to transition into STEM programs at
four-year universities.

Clean energy and green-collar jobs programs took center stage in Obama's plan to
strengthen the U.S. economy. His New Energy for America plan called for
investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to
help commercialize clean energy advancements and to build the infrastructure
for new fuel and electricity technology. An additional $50 billion over the
next five years would capitalize a federal Clean Technologies Deployment
Venture Capital Fund to invest in promising energy technology projects. A new
$1 billion program would allocate funds to states to help convert manufacturing
centers into producers of clean energy technology. The plan also supported job
training programs for military veterans and disadvantaged youth to get the
skills needed to find work in the green economy.

Find out more about President-elect Obama's Plan for Science and Innovation at:
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/FactSheetScience.pdf

ITIF has published a breakdown of the costs of Obama's innovation plan at:
http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=176

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To stay posted on the Presidential transition, log on to the President-Elect
transition web site: www.change.gov


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[Owen Densmore]

Interesting the idea of Obama + Tech.  His campaign was innovative in  
the both the way he used the web for fundraising and for organizing  
the troops.

Orlando recently sent a pointer to his next phase:
   http://www.change.gov
.. which invites the community to start building a set of ideas for  
how to make progress in Obama's main areas of interest.

It seems to me that Friam and sfComplex could help.  Dave West's  
innovative educational ideas, for example .. and possibly pushing for  
a Ted-like (or Pangia Day like) web presence for educational media.

     -- Owen


On Nov 7, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

> fyi.
> -tj
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Richard Lowenberg <[hidden email]>
> Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:12 AM
> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Obama's Science and Innovation Plans
> To: [hidden email]
>
>
>> From this week's State Science and Technology Institute newsletter:
> http://www.ssti.org
>
> Federal TBED Funding and Programs Could Expand under Obama  
> Administration
> After two years of campaigning, President-elect Barack Obama has  
> begun shaping
> the agenda for his coming administration. Though nothing is certain  
> at this
> point, throughout his campaign, President-elect Obama reiterated his  
> support
> for TBED-related initiatives and plans to increase funding for  
> research and
> innovation. His Plan for Science and Innovation, released in  
> September, makes a
> wide range of TBED commitments, touching on clean energy investment,  
> STEM
> education, entrepreneurship and basic research.
>
> Last month the New York Times, with research from the Information  
> Technology and
> Innovation Foundation (ITIF), estimated the annual cost of Obama's  
> innovation
> plan at $85.6 billion. The president-elect pledged during the  
> campaign to
> double the current level of funding for basic research over the next  
> ten years
> at federal science agencies and to fully fund the America Competes  
> Act, signed
> by President George Bush, at $5.9 billion annually.
>
> In order to foster private sector innovation, the Obama plan would  
> make the
> research and development tax credit permanent, double funding for the
> Manufacturing Extension Partnership, create an Advanced  
> Manufacturing Fund to
> increase collaboration between university researchers and industry  
> and invest
> in a nationwide network of public-private incubators. The plan would  
> also
> increase research spending on defense and homeland security,  
> including DARPA
> and Homeland Security ARPA.
>
> The plan also called for: restoring the role of White House science  
> advisor to a
> senior-level position, the Assistant to the President for Science  
> and Technology
> would report directly to the President and would serve as Director  
> of the Office
> of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); and, strengthening the role  
> of the
> President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST),  
> which would
> offer private sector and academic insight into federal innovation  
> policy.
>
> Also included in the plan was a new $500 million Technology  
> Investment Fund that
> would build on existing federal education technology programs by  
> offering
> matching grants to ensure that technology is integrated in public  
> schools. The
> funds would be used to introduce new high-tech learning tools, build  
> a new
> technology-based curriculum and help connect teachers through social  
> networks
> to increase collaboration. In order to improve the quality and  
> number of
> science and technology educators, the plan called for 40,000  
> Teaching Service
> scholarships of up to $25,000 each to increase the number of  
> teachers in
> high-need subjects and underserved regions. Federal science,  
> technology,
> engineering and mathematics (STEM) education policy would be  
> coordinated by a
> new STEM Education Committee in OSTP. This committee would also be  
> charged with
> devising a new method of tracking student achievement in STEM  
> subjects.
>
> At the university-level, the plan calls for tripling the number of  
> National
> Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships from 1,000 to 3,000  
> and
> creating a new Opportunity Tax Credit for college students. A  
> Community College
> Partnership Program would help enhance STEM education at two-year  
> schools to
> encourage community college students to transition into STEM  
> programs at
> four-year universities.
>
> Clean energy and green-collar jobs programs took center stage in  
> Obama's plan to
> strengthen the U.S. economy. His New Energy for America plan called  
> for
> investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private  
> efforts to
> help commercialize clean energy advancements and to build the  
> infrastructure
> for new fuel and electricity technology. An additional $50 billion  
> over the
> next five years would capitalize a federal Clean Technologies  
> Deployment
> Venture Capital Fund to invest in promising energy technology  
> projects. A new
> $1 billion program would allocate funds to states to help convert  
> manufacturing
> centers into producers of clean energy technology. The plan also  
> supported job
> training programs for military veterans and disadvantaged youth to  
> get the
> skills needed to find work in the green economy.
>
> Find out more about President-elect Obama's Plan for Science and  
> Innovation at:
> http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/FactSheetScience.pdf
>
> ITIF has published a breakdown of the costs of Obama's innovation  
> plan at:
> http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=176
>
> -------
>
> To stay posted on the Presidential transition, log on to the  
> President-Elect
> transition web site: www.change.gov
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Richard Lowenberg
> 1st-Mile Institute
> P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
> 505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
> [hidden email]  www.1st-mile.com
>
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> J. T. Johnson
> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
> www.analyticjournalism.com
> 505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
> http://www.jtjohnson.com                 [hidden email]
>
> "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> To change something, build a new model that makes the
> existing model obsolete."
> -- Buckminster Fuller
> ==========================================
>
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[Phil Henshaw-2]

The election of Barak gives you hope, for sure, but as good a listener as he
seems to be, some things don't seem to get mentioned to him.   He doesn't
seem to have anyone telling him that multiplying the complexity of our
solutions multiplies our problems, for example.  

We should let him know, open that door for him, pointing to how the
consensus purpose of growing prosperity involves very rapidly increasing the
complexity of systems of using the earth, and in the most elemental way,
can't work.

Paid scientists only find solutions, leaving all the fun problems we can't
solve to the unpaid!

Phil Henshaw  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
> Behalf Of Owen Densmore
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 5:35 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Obama's Science and Innovation Plans
>
> Interesting the idea of Obama + Tech.  His campaign was innovative in
> the both the way he used the web for fundraising and for organizing
> the troops.
>
> Orlando recently sent a pointer to his next phase:
>    http://www.change.gov
> .. which invites the community to start building a set of ideas for
> how to make progress in Obama's main areas of interest.
>
> It seems to me that Friam and sfComplex could help.  Dave West's
> innovative educational ideas, for example .. and possibly pushing for
> a Ted-like (or Pangia Day like) web presence for educational media.
>
>      -- Owen
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>
> > fyi.
> > -tj
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Richard Lowenberg <[hidden email]>
> > Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:12 AM
> > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Obama's Science and Innovation Plans
> > To: [hidden email]
> >
> >
> >> From this week's State Science and Technology Institute newsletter:
> > http://www.ssti.org
> >
> > Federal TBED Funding and Programs Could Expand under Obama
> > Administration
> > After two years of campaigning, President-elect Barack Obama has
> > begun shaping
> > the agenda for his coming administration. Though nothing is certain
> > at this
> > point, throughout his campaign, President-elect Obama reiterated his
> > support
> > for TBED-related initiatives and plans to increase funding for
> > research and
> > innovation. His Plan for Science and Innovation, released in
> > September, makes a
> > wide range of TBED commitments, touching on clean energy investment,
> > STEM
> > education, entrepreneurship and basic research.
> >
> > Last month the New York Times, with research from the Information
> > Technology and
> > Innovation Foundation (ITIF), estimated the annual cost of Obama's
> > innovation
> > plan at $85.6 billion. The president-elect pledged during the
> > campaign to
> > double the current level of funding for basic research over the next
> > ten years
> > at federal science agencies and to fully fund the America Competes
> > Act, signed
> > by President George Bush, at $5.9 billion annually.
> >
> > In order to foster private sector innovation, the Obama plan would
> > make the
> > research and development tax credit permanent, double funding for the
> > Manufacturing Extension Partnership, create an Advanced
> > Manufacturing Fund to
> > increase collaboration between university researchers and industry
> > and invest
> > in a nationwide network of public-private incubators. The plan would
> > also
> > increase research spending on defense and homeland security,
> > including DARPA
> > and Homeland Security ARPA.
> >
> > The plan also called for: restoring the role of White House science
> > advisor to a
> > senior-level position, the Assistant to the President for Science
> > and Technology
> > would report directly to the President and would serve as Director
> > of the Office
> > of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); and, strengthening the role
> > of the
> > President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST),
> > which would
> > offer private sector and academic insight into federal innovation
> > policy.
> >
> > Also included in the plan was a new $500 million Technology
> > Investment Fund that
> > would build on existing federal education technology programs by
> > offering
> > matching grants to ensure that technology is integrated in public
> > schools. The
> > funds would be used to introduce new high-tech learning tools, build
> > a new
> > technology-based curriculum and help connect teachers through social
> > networks
> > to increase collaboration. In order to improve the quality and
> > number of
> > science and technology educators, the plan called for 40,000
> > Teaching Service
> > scholarships of up to $25,000 each to increase the number of
> > teachers in
> > high-need subjects and underserved regions. Federal science,
> > technology,
> > engineering and mathematics (STEM) education policy would be
> > coordinated by a
> > new STEM Education Committee in OSTP. This committee would also be
> > charged with
> > devising a new method of tracking student achievement in STEM
> > subjects.
> >
> > At the university-level, the plan calls for tripling the number of
> > National
> > Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships from 1,000 to 3,000
> > and
> > creating a new Opportunity Tax Credit for college students. A
> > Community College
> > Partnership Program would help enhance STEM education at two-year
> > schools to
> > encourage community college students to transition into STEM
> > programs at
> > four-year universities.
> >
> > Clean energy and green-collar jobs programs took center stage in
> > Obama's plan to
> > strengthen the U.S. economy. His New Energy for America plan called
> > for
> > investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private
> > efforts to
> > help commercialize clean energy advancements and to build the
> > infrastructure
> > for new fuel and electricity technology. An additional $50 billion
> > over the
> > next five years would capitalize a federal Clean Technologies
> > Deployment
> > Venture Capital Fund to invest in promising energy technology
> > projects. A new
> > $1 billion program would allocate funds to states to help convert
> > manufacturing
> > centers into producers of clean energy technology. The plan also
> > supported job
> > training programs for military veterans and disadvantaged youth to
> > get the
> > skills needed to find work in the green economy.
> >
> > Find out more about President-elect Obama's Plan for Science and
> > Innovation at:
> > http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/FactSheetScience.pdf
> >
> > ITIF has published a breakdown of the costs of Obama's innovation
> > plan at:
> > http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=176
> >
> > -------
> >
> > To stay posted on the Presidential transition, log on to the
> > President-Elect
> > transition web site: www.change.gov
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Richard Lowenberg
> > 1st-Mile Institute
> > P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
> > 505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
> > [hidden email]  www.1st-mile.com
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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> > J. T. Johnson
> > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
> > www.analyticjournalism.com
> > 505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
> > http://www.jtjohnson.com                 [hidden email]
> >
> > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> > To change something, build a new model that makes the
> > existing model obsolete."
> > -- Buckminster Fuller
> > ==========================================
> >
> > ============================================================
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
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