Ro Khanna presents a thought-provoking analysis of our country’s high-tech & economic divide between smaller cities & towns and large technology centered metropolitan areas.
Dignity in a Digital Age is a roadmap of innovative ways to close the gaps and increase equity – technologic, educational and economic equity – in Mid-America towns and cities. Khanna is optimistic that by creating more partnerships between high-tech companies and the non-urban workforce, together with both local colleges and tech hubs, that we can integrate the talents and business insight of America’s heartland and tech into jobs for people of all ages. Khanna provides examples of how partnering private & public money to sponsor technology in mid-America’s businesses enables families & colleges to incorporate technology into their lives and passions.
The success of remote work has been demonstrated by the necessities of the pandemic. People in companies of all sizes now experience the power and advantages of distributed teams and benefit from including expertise with people based in rural and smaller cities across our country.
Khanna’s Dignity, includes principles for:
• New platforms that can improve the quality of both our markets and public discourse.
• Digital institutions that effectively link citizens to governance and provide a preferred alternative to social media.
• Facilitating robust citizen participation.
• A theory of democratic patriotism, calling for citizens to have equal opportunity to participate in building our national culture.
• A spirit of civility to appreciate and support a plurality of local cultures, customs and traditions.
In each chapter, Khanna shares stories, ideas, and policies that help us reach these goals as a nation, recognizing the need for mobilization, activism, experimentation, and struggle along the way. Dignity is divided into two main parts — the first, devoted to the 21st century economy; the second, devoted to 21st century citizenship.
Khanna’s roadmap and examples show that wherever we are located, we can join forces, leverage technology, expand opportunity, and improve efficiency in our chosen occupations.
The approaches offered by Khanna guide us to:
• Foster a nucleus of tech jobs with myriad applications for different industries and local entrepreneurs in communities across our nation.
• Promote place-based policymaking. This is one of the more consequential initiatives we can undertake to strengthen our democracy. Leaders often suffer from the blind spot that “place matters” to the vast majority of us.
• Encourage democratic patriotism that calls for citizens to have an equal opportunity to participate in building our national culture.
• Consider the key aspects of a new “Internet Bill of Rights” that encourages both personal and platform responsibility/accountability, improving the internet’s impact on our discussion.
• Implement a balanced private/public responsibility for discussions with dignity, with modest enhancements in regulation requirements and recourse methods.
• Show how we can apply tech to increase participation in problem-solving for better democracy for our diverse population and across multiple locations.
• Improve our participation in 21st Century Citizenship is a priority theme in Khanna’s book. He is helping us become a more inclusive democracy and better protect our privacy, freedom and autonomy, while encouraging our responsible deliberation in online forums.
Ro Khanna's excellent book succeeds in making a compelling case to unify U.S. heartland cities and towns with innovative opportunities & local technology hubs, while encouraging all of us to work together to implement his proposed approaches. He's convinced me. I am ready. Let’s do this.
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I appreciate Rep. Ro Khanna writing this book which offers an exciting and hopeful glimpse of heart-warming stories in which retraining for tech jobs in rural America instead of offshoring jobs to other countries is improving lives and creating new opportunities. The thousands of technology related jobs in manufacturing, product development and other fields which have been and are being created across this nation is amazing to see for its potential of further growth in the future. High technology companies can and are spreading these opportunities across the country. The increased and effective remote work practices show the acceptance and viability of collaboration for work teams located across the nation but working together at one company. The book also looks at the technology educational learning centers which are also spreading across the nation and they can help provide a foundation and infrastructure for these types of tech jobs to new areas in the United States. And the multiplier effect of these jobs is allowing for a widening participation of more people and more people in the new economy.
