Transition Documents for Obama Administration

By Stephanie Jordan
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The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) released this week its set of transition documents aimed at helping the Obama administration craft a policy agenda across a broad range of areas, including: security, free speech, consumer privacy, health information privacy, copyright, and Internet-related issues. According to CDT, the Internet played an integral part in this election, making it the most participatory in history. CDT believes the Internet can play an equally critical role in other areas, including health care, economic development and education, given the right government policies.

“The new administration understands that challenges to the Internet are growing in the U.S. and abroad,” says Leslie Harris, CDT’s President and CEO. “Our transition documents provide the new administration with a clear, sound approach on how to confront these challenges while ensuring that the Internet continues to be a growth engine for the economy and a transformative tool for the open, transparent government envisioned by President-elect Obama.”

The 2–3 page memos provide a concise overview of the issues and recommend practical, achievable actions the new administration can take to keep the Internet open, innovative and free. CDT’s memos, which are already in the hands of the Obama Transition Team, are available online at http://www.cdt.org/transition. CDT anticipates that these documents will also be made available on the President-elect’s Choice.gov website as part the Transition Team’s “Seat at the Table” project.

Published December 12, 2008