Facing the Crisis, the European Union Should Imitate Obama’s Reliance on New Technologies to Bring About Change
Determined to act swiftly to pass an $825 billion stimulus package, US President Barack Obama used his weekly address (on a revamped whitehouse.gov website) to give more details about this recovery plan. As it stands now, the proposal includes public spending programs in three high-tech areas : computerization of medical records; creation of smarter, high-tech enhanced electrical grids; expansion of high speed internet lines in undeserved areas. House Democrats and Obama’s economic team, who conjunctly designed the stimulus package, see these investments in digital technologies are an enabler for economic… Lire la suite »Facing the Crisis, the European Union Should Imitate Obama’s Reliance on New Technologies to Bring About Change