Public Policy Tag

President Joe Biden should create the digital equivalent of FDR’s Works Progress Administration to build durable continuously improving public digital assets, restore faith in government, and most importantly, to protect our democracy from the steady encroachment of fascist authoritarianism. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. should create the U.S. Digital Progress Administration...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about former California Governor Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr.’s Office of Appropriate Technology (OAT) and what might have been. Brown created the OAT, which was mothballed by his GOP successor, during his first term as California’s governor in the mid 1970's. It was the...