With Obama now officially President, the White House site has been redone to reflect the new administration’s priorities. Of special interest to those of us in MCDM is the Technology Agenda page. While it’s filled with important information, two things that jumped out right away for me were:
- Protect the Openness of the Internet: Support the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.
- Deploy Next-Generation Broadband: Work towards true broadband in every community in America through a combination of reform of the Universal Service Fund, better use of the nation’s wireless spectrum, promotion of next-generation facilities, technologies and applications, and new tax and loan incentives. America should lead the world in broadband penetration and Internet access.
These two combined can help ensure that Internet continues to be an incubator of innovation and the jobs innovation creates. Good policies for media professionals.
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Kenneth Rufo
And let’s not forget the performative changes. A wide fixed width, an interesting sign in itself for not worrying about those still using 800 x 600 screens, and an embrace of creative commons 3.0 on the copyright info page. Clean xml for the rss feed. All in all, me likey.
Jan 20th, 2009
Brook Ellingwood
Yeah, I was going to swipe the White House seal from the top nav and put it in this blog post, but it got complicated when I discovered that they are doing some pretty advanced usability and accessibility-aware HTML work. Change.gov was pretty well done from a technical perspective (although I had nitpicks), but at first glance it looks like the new WhiteHouse.gov could become a touchstone for best practices. That’s amazing for me to consider.
Jan 20th, 2009
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