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• June 18, 2013 at 3:45 PM EDT

  Nominate a White House Champion of Change for Tech Inclusion

  This July, the White House will host a “Champions of Change” event on Tech Inclusion. This event will celebrate and honor local change-agents who are making these moments of wonder and discovery happen for kids – specifically those making a difference for kids from communities underrepresented in technology, like girls and minorities.

• June 18, 2013 at 12:43 PM EDT

  New Tools to Help the Hungry and Malnourished

  Last week, following the publishing of a new series on maternal and child nutrition in the medical journal The Lancet , governments, donors, non-profits, academia, and the private sector came together to focus on undernutrition at events in London and Washington, DC. The events provided an opportunity for the United States and other participants to highlight existing and planned actions to address undernutrition.

• June 17, 2013 at 12:33 PM EDT

  Innovators Address the Wage Gap with Apps and Open Data

  Last week, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Equal Pay Act by President Kennedy, President Obama recognized innovators who have used open government data to build tools that address the wage gap.That gap has grown considerably smaller since the Kennedy era, but it has not disappeared.

• June 17, 2013 at 9:14 AM EDT

  R&D Roadmap Points Way to Biological Preparedness

  OSTP today released the National Biosurveillance Science and Technology Roadmap, which identifies and prioritizes research and development (R&D) needs with the goal of giving decision makers and responders the information they need to protect the public from biological threats. The Roadmap builds upon the National Strategy for Biosurveillance, published in July 2012.

• June 14, 2013 at 11:04 AM EDT

  Administration Advances Wireless Spectrum for Economic Growth

  President Obama today issued a Presidential Memorandum that builds on the Administration’s commitment to make additional spectrum available for wireless broadband to drive innovation, expand consumer services, and increase job creation and economic growth. It establishes a set of measures that Federal agencies will now take to more aggressively enhance spectrum efficiency and enable access to more spectrum for consumer services and applications.

• June 11, 2013 at 3:39 PM EDT

  Celebrating the Opening of a New High Performance Computing Center

  OSTP’s Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs Dr. Patricia Falcone provided keynote remarks yesterday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of the US Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL) new supercomputing center at Aberdeen Proving Ground in northern Maryland.

• June 7, 2013 at 5:35 PM EDT

  Thousands of Americans Innovate for Good on the National Day of Civic Hacking

  This past weekend, more than 11,000 people in 83 cities across America participated in 95 open data hacking events as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. This huge turnout is an unmistakable mark of the growing interest and enthusiasm of American innovators in applying their tech skills for social good. At events across the country, participants in Civic Hacking Day were set loose on open government data.

• June 7, 2013 at 12:29 PM EDT

  Health Datapalooza IV Tops Off a Huge Year in Health Data Liberation & Innovation

  Health Datapalooza IV has officially wrapped and with over 1900 attendees and 80 companies, this was the biggest palooza yet. Kicked off by Secretary Sebelius for the second year in a row, this year’s event was a tremendous display of health data in action.