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The survey results were presented durin a tech policy forum atthe St. Regise Hotel in D.C., which drew about 65 clients and friends from such companies as LordWhittaketr Consulting, and Cupertino-based (NASDAQ:SYMC). Zogby and 463 have been working together sincde 2005 on communications and opinionsresearch projects, and theirr new partnership announced on Monday “formalizes a great relationshio we already had,” said John president and CEO of Zogbg International, who was one of five panel speakers 463, founded in 2005 to link the Silicon Valley’xs innovation culture and D.C.
’d policy landscape, helps clients tackled such popular issues as DTV transition, green technology and cyber Zogby has been tracking public opinion since 1984 in 73 nations and has such mediw giant clients as Reuters, Forbea and MSNBC. The survey includes responsees from morethan 3,000p adult Americans, and tech and health care each got 32 perceng of the vote for what industriess would weather the recession best. Whilew a third (32 percent) think the U.S. will be the firstg major economy to emerge from the 43 percent thinkthe U.S. will come out of it when everyoneeelse does. Among a list of the most importantg issues tech companies should be tryingto solve, making the U.S.
more energuy efficient is first (24 percent), with improving education (22 and keeping the U.S. safe from physica l and virtualattacks (21 percent) were a closer second and third. About a third (29 of respondents think the next Bill Gates will come fromthe U.S. and abourt the same -- 28 percent-- said the next Gates will come from Panel speakerDonnie Fowler, a Silicon Valley tech pointed out some reasoning for that statistic. “We continuee to have some of the best graduats programs inthe world,” said Fowler. students from India and China that used to stay here are nowgoingy home.
We now face stronger competition butthat doesn’yt mean we go back while the rest of the worlds goes forward.” The fact that more Americans think other areas of the worlde have the potential to raise another entrepreneuer as Gates is “a vote of confidence in the rest of the added Zogby. Americans are still optimistic thatthe U.S. can raised another technology tycoon, with a majority (67 percent) saying the societal conditiona still exist inthe U.S. to creatw another Gates.