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Tech issues went largely ignored when US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump threw their plans of economy in speeches this week.
in fact, the Republican candidate Trump makes no mention of IT problems, except for his opposition to trade agreements widely supported by the technology industry in his speech Monday. Trump largely focused on tax cuts and deregulation United States companies.
Democratic candidate Clinton also opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement mentioned broadband passing, but most of his speech on Thursday focused on the employment and consumer pocketbook issues.
Clinton called the US to achieve universal broadband deployment by 2020 in a section of his speech focused on rebuilding US infrastructure.
"It is amazing to me how many places in America ... do not have broadband access," she said. "And that disadvantage children who are encouraged to do their homework using the Internet. Five million of them live in households without access to the Internet. "
Meanwhile, Trump spoke about rejuvenate the industries of coal and steel in the United States, but did no mention. Clinton is "the candidate of the past," he said. "Ours is the country of the future."
The lack of Trump a focus on technology issues has been a sore point for the technology industry in recent months. Groups trade Tech called Trump to describe a technology program without success.
the internet industry is responsible for approximately 3 million American jobs, noted Noah Theran, a spokesman for the trade group of Internet Association. "it is essential that candidates understand the importance of the Internet to our economy and save with healthy public policy," he said by email.
While the economic discourse Clinton largely ignored technology issues, she did describe a tech-policy agenda in June. Among other initiatives, it wants the United States to train 50,000 new teachers in IT over the next 10 years and grow green cards to foreign students earning advanced technological and scientific degrees of American colleges.
Clinton technology policy plan was generally well received in the technology industry. Its push for better science and technology education and the deployment of broadband are plans that the Software and Information Industry Association "strongly supports" the trade group said.
Trump, a few times, talked about the need to improve US cybersecurity.
Clinton's overall approach to economic issues seems more in line with the technology industry, said Ed Black, President and CEO of the IT Association and industry communications . Clinton technology industry and "share a realistic view of the interconnected complex world in which we live, and we believe will often arrive at parallel positions on many things," he said.
Many people in the technology industry see Trump as a "destabilizing" force in the world economy, with the candidate to talk about the consolidation of the major international agreements, Black said. "the global economic and legal order was .. . good enough for the technology industry, "he said.
Clinton's call for the deployment of broad band extended its winning points in the technology industry, such as did his job when she was Secretary of State to promote Internet freedom around the world, said Black.
Although the two candidates have questioned discusses free trade, there is a "lack of nuance and gray areas when Trump talks," Black added.
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