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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has tapped son-in-law Jared Kushner to lead a new White House office, that aims to apply ideas from the business world to help streamline the government, the Washington Post reports.
The White House Office of Innovation is to be unveiled today with sweeping authority to overhaul the bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises like reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction, the Post said.
“I promised the American people I would produce results, and apply my ‘ahead of schedule, under budget’ mentality to the government,” Trump was quoted as saying.
It is conceived as a sort of SWAT team made up of former private sector executives charged with bringing fresh ideas to the business of government, according to the report.
“The government should be run like a great American company. Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens,” Kushner told the Post.
The 36-year-old is a senior adviser to Trump with far-reaching influence over domestic and foreign policy.
Top Trump strategist Stephen Bannon, who has called for “deconstruction of the administrative state,” will not be part of the new group, the Post said.
Technology and data are expected to be a key focus of the effort, and the White House has been working with the likes of Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla’s Elon Musk, the Post said.
“There is a need to figure out what policies are adding friction to the system without accompanying it with significant benefits,” Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of investment firm Blackstone Group, told the Post.
“It’s easy for the private sector to at least see where the friction is, and to do that very quickly and succinctly.”
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And those in rural areas of Ireland will get acceptable broadband speeds i.e more than 300k download speed.
I’m lucky if I even get that. And I’m only about 10 miles from Cork City and am on a main road. Faster broadband would be a dream come true but I’m not gonna hold my breath…
With the introduction of “4G”, the things we will be moaning about data limits, Coverage areas and network brown outs.
And latency. Horrible latency. Useless for SSH to my server in Iceland which already pings almost 1s from my ADSL.
Don’t live in the country side and complain about broadband speeds! It’s like living on the moon and complaining about the weather! Want good broadband? Move to a city or large town!
I think 4G will be the best high speed solution for people in rural area’s
I’m putting all my money on the internal combustion engine finally breaking through to the big time this year. It’s been a while coming but I think it’s time.
A vibrator which tells all your friends on Facebook when you are using it
3d printing will also see interesting developments this year due to certain patents that are due to expire for methods other than the “stepstruder” style ones that are commonly seen.
Curved TVs Curved Smartphones. Don’t see the point in them. Smart home tech like smoke alarms, integrated car tech
I’m still waiting for my hoverboard.
Cryptocurrency , E-Wallets and early Robotics.
My tip would be for smart building/city applications such as http://www.EnergyElephant.com (nice little self plug ;0)
You can increase your use of Irish and renewable energy by just checking when is best to turn on a washing machine, charge a laptop/iPad or have a low carbon cuppa! Think Irish, think green.
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