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America's 46th president wants to use government policy and technology to address social justice, climate change, and economic prosperity.

President Joe Biden is making science part of the decision-making process again by adding the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to his Cabinet. Biden asked Eric Lander to lead the OSTP. Lander was one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project and is now the president of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He also was the co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology for President Barack Obama. 

Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CTA, said he looks forward to working with the new OSTP and providing a forward-thinking approach to how tech can continue to serve as a tool for helping the country.

SEE: Big data's role in COVID-19 (free PDF) (TechRepublic)

"President-elect Biden's decision to elevate the Office of Science and Technology Policy to Cabinet level reflects tech's vital role in solving pressing challenges—from creating a cleaner environment to conquering the pandemic," he said.

 

In his nomination letter to Lander, Biden asked the researcher to consider five specific questions and recommend general strategies, specific actions, and new structures that the federal government should adopt to support these priorities. The five questions are:

  1. What can we learn from the pandemic about what is or ought to be possible to address the widest range of needs related to our public health?
  2. How can breakthroughs in science and technology create new solutions to address climate change--propelling market-driven change, jump-starting economic growth, improving health, and growing jobs, especially in communities that have been left behind?
  3. How can the US ensure that it is the world leader in the technologies and industries of the future that will be critical to our economic prosperity and national security, especially in competition with China?
  4. How can we guarantee that the fruits of science and technology are fully shared across America and among all Americans?
  5. How can we ensure the long-term health of science and technology in our nation?

Tom Wheeler, a former chairman of the FCC and currently a visiting fellow with the Center for Technology Innovation at The Brookings Institution, said that adding the head of the OSTP to the Cabinet sends the message that science and technology are guiding principles again after four years of an administration that took the opposite approach. 

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