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06-27-2017, 02:22 AM
Trump’s Tech Week did **t make America great
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It was a full house last week at 1600 Penn. as President Donald Trump opened his doors to a gaggle of tech CEOs to talk about modernizing the U.S. government. Among the all-star lineup were Apple's Tim Cook, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Alphabet's Eric Schmidt.
All this, as of the once-filled desks at departments key to bringing the government in the 21st century remain empty. *
Trump has yet to appoint a science advisor, which breaks with decades of practice in Republican and Democratic administrations. That advisor typically heads up OSTP, which among other things advises the government on everything from artificial intelligence to climate change. Senators have issued letters (https://www.hassan.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-hassan-leads-group-of-senators-urging-president-trump-to-fill-key-science-posts-throughout-administration) pleading with the president to fill out the OSTP staff. Other departments important to in**vation efforts are almost comically understaffed (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/science-tech**logy-white-house-trump.html?_r=2). The U.S Digital Service, for example, is looking to recruit, via a blog post (https://medium.com/the-u-s-digital-service/whats-the-latest-with-the-u-s-digital-service-d11e51e1b66e) published earlier this month. And for anyone paying attention, they'll realize that this is Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/26/trump-tech-week-worthy-goal-photo-opp/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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All this, as of the once-filled desks at departments key to bringing the government in the 21st century remain empty. *
Trump has yet to appoint a science advisor, which breaks with decades of practice in Republican and Democratic administrations. That advisor typically heads up OSTP, which among other things advises the government on everything from artificial intelligence to climate change. Senators have issued letters (https://www.hassan.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-hassan-leads-group-of-senators-urging-president-trump-to-fill-key-science-posts-throughout-administration) pleading with the president to fill out the OSTP staff. Other departments important to in**vation efforts are almost comically understaffed (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/science-tech**logy-white-house-trump.html?_r=2). The U.S Digital Service, for example, is looking to recruit, via a blog post (https://medium.com/the-u-s-digital-service/whats-the-latest-with-the-u-s-digital-service-d11e51e1b66e) published earlier this month. And for anyone paying attention, they'll realize that this is Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/26/trump-tech-week-worthy-goal-photo-opp/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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