[FRIAM] Fwd: [1st-mile-nm] Lujan: Libraries + Innovation

[Merle Lefkoff]

Thanks for noting this Richard.  And thanks for your pioneering efforts in
bringing bandwidth capacity to rural New Mexico.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 6:46 PM, George Duncan <gtduncan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like.
>
> George Duncan
> Emeritus Professor of Statistics
> Carnegie  Mellon  University
> GeorgeDuncanART.com
>
> On Jan 13, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:
>
> FYI
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> From: "Richard Lowenberg" <rl at 1st-mile.org>
> Date: Jan 12, 2017 9:52 PM
> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Lujan: Libraries + Innovation
> To: "1st-mile Nm" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
> Cc:
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> Lujan: Libraries + Innovation
>
> http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2017/01/lawmaker-public-
> libraries-can-boost-american-innovation/134518/
>
> President-elect Donald Trump's technology agenda is largely opaque, but at
> least one member of Congress has a message for his administration: ideas
> for cutting-edge technology often comes from the grassroots.
>
> “Innovation may have a national or even global impact but like politics,
> the process of innovation is inherently local,” Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M.,
> said during an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation event on
> Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The government needs to think of creative ways
> to “provide resources to the innovators ... across the country," he added.
>
> Lujan advocated for establishing maker-spaces in public libraries,
> potentially outfitting them with small-scale manufacturing equipment such
> as 3-D printers, that are accessible to businesses, researchers and the
> nearby community. Because public libraries already exist across America,
> "including the rural parts, where we still don’t have bandwidth capacity,"
> they could become hubs for technological development outside Silicon
> Valley, he said.
>
> Lujan, who co-founded the House Technology Transfer Caucus, singled out
> this and a few other innovation-themed recommendations for Trump's
> administration mentioned in a report from the ITIF and the Brookings
> Institution.
>
> He also advocated for creating an Energy Department-based nonprofit that
> could dole out funds to transition technology out of federal research labs
> and into the marketplace. Lujan said he's working on legislation that would
> encourage Energy to promote partnerships with local economic development
> groups including maker-spaces.
>
> Other specific recommendations mentioned in the report include encouraging
> student entrepreneurship and increasing research and development tax credit
> generosity.
>
>
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