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Last Wednesday The Green Grid (TGG) announced it was joining forces with Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), merging membership and programs under The Green Grid brand and really widening the focus to span all of IT technology. The combination of these memberships and the areas of focus of these two organizations speak volumes of Schneider Electric’s own mission, to help our customers make [...]
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Last week, ITI and several of our member companies in Silicon Valley hosted a Brazilian government delegation for a week of discussions and demonstrations designed to create a greater understanding between government and innovators, and to foster a stronger relationship moving forward. ITI’s Dean Garfield takes a look at lessons learned during the visit. The slowing global economy has intensified [...]
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The chorus of voices calling for a competitive U.S. tax code to spark job growth and economic investment is growing stronger by the day. Add Bloomberg to the choir. Its editorial published Sunday night makes clear that the political hyperbole around tax reform isn’t creating jobs. What will is actual tax reform – and the adoption of a lower corporate rate and a competitive territorial system should [...]
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There’s been a lot of heated rhetoric this week about “territorial” taxation, but one fundamental fact is clear: a competitive territorial tax system would help spark job creation and business investment in America. Unfortunately, the rhetoric has badly misinformed the American people about what the real facts are. Here are the key points to keep in mind: The United States has the highest corporate [...]
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ITI and our member companies take cybersecurity very seriously. We have to; protecting people when they are online underpins a major portion of our innovation economy. Consider the everyday applications that we all rely on -- online banking, social networking, picture sharing, health care systems access, music and movies, real-time weather and traffic reports. Cybersecurity helps to protect the [...]
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Experts from the APEC economies gathered in Seoul, Korea yesterday to convene a second conference intended to achieve alignment on mandatory energy efficiency regulations for personal computers. While PCs have been around for a long time, achieving global alignment on how they are regulated for energy efficiency remains at the early stages. To help address this problem, ITI has been partnering with [...]
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Today, President Obama announced the immediate creation of new national corps of leading math and science educators to improve education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The STEM Master Teacher Corps initiative aims to help schools and districts do what they haven’t traditionally done very well: broaden the reach of our best teachers. The program has some hurdles to clear, but [...]
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Today, the President announced a $1 billion initiative to boost science, technology, engineering, and math (“STEM”) education in the country. His plan calls for the creation of the Master Teacher Corps, which aims to hire highly qualified teachers to prepare today’s students for the 21st century economy. If implemented, the plan would hire 2,500 teachers across the country now, and grow to 10,000 [...]
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At TechElect, we love substantive policy debates, and Alan Beattie’s piece in today’s Financial Times on the presidential candidates’ approaches to corporate tax reform tax reform certainly fits the bill. TechElect has already compared the candidates’ competing tax plans, and we applaud the FT’s deep dive into both presidential candidates’ positions on tax reform. TechElect finds much to agree on [...]
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Will the Senate pass a cybersecurity bill? That’s the major question looming this week as the time for congressional action in 2012 shrinks. While the House of Representatives passed a package of cybersecurity bills with bipartisan support, Senators seem to be struggling to find their own bipartisan agreement that can win the support of at least 60 members – the key threshold to pass just about any [...]
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