February 6, 2009
Let's Spur Recovery by Investing in Information
In the 1990s, the Internet and digital technologies brought astonishing gains in worker productivity and national prosperity. Today we can leverage that investment and buoy economic recovery by hiring people to move the collections of libraries and cultural-memory organizations — the raw material of the information age — to the Web.
Investing in an open, universal digital commons will help ease the current economic crisis by creating jobs, equipping workers with
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