Will Obama keep his promises to the tech world?

Barack Obama has been elected as the President of the United States once again. It’s that time when everyone deduces what this means for economics, foreign policy, defence, technology and almost every other policy plan.

For the tech sector, promises and their delivery will be under scanner, issues will be brought back on to the table. Of the promises made in technology: Startup Act 2.0, National Broadband Plan, the fate of SOPA ( Stop Online Piracy Act), PIPA (Protect IP Act) will be under focus.

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SOPA and PIPA were controversial bills that aimed that chainging the way internet works where search engines like Google would modify search results to exclude foreign websites that host illegally copied material among other clauses.

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While both SOPA and PIPA were both killed, experts believe that they might come back in some other form.

In the proposed National Broadband Plan, Obama promised to increase broadband adoption to 90% by 2020. The plan proposed various regulatory measures, to connect rural and low-income citizens to broadband.

While Obama has historically been against outsourcing jobs out of America, he is all for passing the Startup Act 2.0 which provides for a entrepreneurship visa for foreign workers who create jobs in the US and also his initiative to start “Presidential Innovation Fellows” where talented private sector innovators work with the govemment’s top innovators to boost entrepreneurship in America and to add jobs.

In his address at NY Tech meet earlier, Barack Obama said:

I also signed a law to help high-growth entrepreneurs and small businesses harness “crowdfunding” to raise capital consistent with investor protections and make it easier for young, high- growth firms to go public. I also launched the Startup America Partnership to improve the environment for high-growth entrepreneurship across the country. I encourage you to join, as we’re focusing on unlocking access to capital to fuel startup growth, connecting mentors and education to entrepreneurs, accelerating innovation from “lab to market” for breakthrough technologies and unleashing market opportunities in industries like health care, clean energy and education.

A TechCrunch article enlists Obama’s tech agenda and what he will need to focus on.

The Verge article on the other hand, compares what all the candidates promised when it came to technology.