Federal Funding for IT and Policy and Law: Federal

While Washington concentrates on the IT legislative and regulatory issues at hand, the presidential candidates are being queried about their positions and the Democratic and Republican National Committees are focusing on crafting platforms to be adopted during their summer conventions. Policy experts from some of the leading IT policy associations and think tanks will share their insights on how the Democratic and Republican parties and their respective presidential nominees will integrate IT issues into the 2008 presidential campaign.

The author reviews the legislative efforts of the 110th congress while keeping an eye on the future.

Political, economic, and intellectual developments have shaped and continue to transform the U.S. agenda for research and information technology, resulting in key computational, networking, and data challenges for tomorrow.

This report was written by the NSF blue-ribbon committee chaired by Dan Atkins, it is on cyberinfrastructure to support science.