Submitted by Taran Rampersad on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 15:02
The White House has opened up communication - maybe even dialogue - with us. In this particular instance, there are two questions being asked (3, really):
How is American innovation affecting your community?
What are the obstacles to innovation that you see in your community? And what steps can be taken to remove them?
I urge you to try answering the questions that are posed here, and to give your own perspectives - even if I find them disagreeable.
The idea here is that we all get to have a say in what we need to innovate as American businesses, now and in the future - be it broadband penetration, network neutrality, or anything else that one could see necessary for increased innovation.
The buzz phrase is, "Win The Future" - but I find that phrase inept. The future wins no matter what we do. 'Winning our future' seems to be more appropriate, but no one pays me to write speeches, much less the State of the Union address by the President of the United States.
Sound off. Be heard. Maybe you think it's useless - but if it is useless, make it their fault - not yours or mine.
Personally, I used the opportunity to ask about the status of Network Neutrality, particularly how it seems that the FCC keep saying it is a priority while it remains an unresolved issue that makes small business innovation dubious by virtue of the potential of large corporations to determine the size of the fish bowls small businesses are forced to exist in.
As other ideas come to mind, or even with feedback from other people, I'll go back and write in the concerns. But really, this is a numbers game to them at that level - so let the numbers be counted, heard and democratically represented.
