Google's Schmidt named chair of think tank

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has been named as chairman of the board to the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., that focuses on issues like health care, education, and foreign policy.

Eric Schmidt

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Schmidt joined the board 10 years ago when the think tank, which aims to transcend conventional party lines, was founded and before he joined Google. He will assume his new role June 1 and succeeds James Fallows, author and national correspondent of the Atlantic.

"We are thrilled about (Schmidt becoming chairman) and delighted that he's willing to carve out time from an obviously very busy professional life," New America Foundation President and Chief Executive Steve Coll said in an interview. Coll, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is a staff writer at The New Yorker and former managing editor of The Washington Post.

Given his experience at Google, Schmidt is a perfect choice to help foster an entrepreneurial spirit at the New America Foundation, Coll said. "We are trying to innovate internally and be different from other think tanks and preserve a culture of creativity and independence in a Washington world of public policy where that can sometimes be difficult," he said.

New America Foundation has one big technology initiative, "Wireless Future," in which reports have been written supporting the principle of Net neutrality. Net neutrality is the general idea that Internet service providers should avoid discriminating against certain Web sites or types of Internet traffic.

Google has lobbied heavily in favor of Net neutrality, but Coll said Schmidt has "never intervened at all in policy work" at the institute.

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Senario

Yes ok non partisan sounds great.
Picture this if you may.
A new bill is passed that lets more be done with Health Internet Technologies targeted at individual care.
Unfortunitley the technology that MyaShoo is trying to set such a system up with is partly deemed illegal. Of course the Google technology obviously was more designed to be leagal and why use that Microsoft product with the problems attached.
Hey at least it nonpartisan.

[Stating]

I Want An Old America Foundation

We need an "Old America" Foundation. A group that champions the old America where we actually made things, the dollar was like gold, a family could make it on one paycheck, and we were the world's largest creditor nation, not the world's largest debtor. How is yet another "New America" good for anyone other than the globalists and Goldman Sachs? These guys would outsource their mother to China if they could make an extra buck.

Americans need to take America back for America.

[Plebian8]

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Amen, brother.

[kael10]

Mr. Schmidt owes his success largely to a global network of mobster fiends is what I hear from rival mafia. They say it was him that was directly responsible for the colosal profits made from promoting child pornography with the Google search engine.
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