In a week of news dominated by the US presidential and congressional elections, there has been a growing amount written on what the new administration will mean for technology and the IT industry.

It has been an unprecedented election in terms of online activity – Barack Obama’s YouTube page has had over 1800 videos uploaded to it; he was discussing leveraging social networks for his cause back in February 2007; it has been reported that the president-elect’s traditional weekly radio addresses will be filmed and streamed online, and since his election an online game has appeared featuring Obama in the main role. When hiring new aids during his transition period he has handed them a questionnaire asking for disclosure of all their online activity, and an unprecedented number of technology executives have been charged with helping Obama’s transition into the White House – it’s even been suggested that none other than Bill Gates will be Obama’s new CTO. There is also discussion over the new US congress, who are more concerned with technology than ever.

So what does this all mean for the industry? There is a very in-depth of Obama’s technology history available, concluding that he will protect citizen’s privacy rights, and reverse the decline in funding for science and research.