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STEM at State of the Union!
Posted by on February 12, 2013 at 6:06 PM EDTAmong the esteemed guests who will be sitting with the First Lady during tonight’s State of the Union address, three are outstanding leaders in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math). Through their accomplishments, these individuals personify a theme of longstanding importance to President Obama: the centrality of science, technology, and innovation to America’s ongoing global leadership.
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Consumer.Data.Gov is Live!
Posted by on February 11, 2013 at 10:23 AM EDTToday, the Obama Administration launched the Smart Disclosure Data Community at Consumer.Data.gov, an important step to empower Americans with the data and tools they need to make more informed choices in the marketplace.“Smart disclosure” is the act of making potentially useful data more readily available—both to consumers and innovators.
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Announcing We the People 2.0 and a White House Hackathon
Posted by on February 5, 2013 at 11:58 AM EDTWe're working towards Petitions 2.0, releasing an API, and inviting a small group to join us on February 22, 2013 for the White House Open Data Day Hackathon.
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Working to Counter Online Radicalization to Violence in the United States
Posted by on February 5, 2013 at 11:02 AM EDTA new inter-agency working group will be responsible for developing plans to implement an Internet safety approach to address online violent extremism, coordinating the federal government’s activities and assessing our progress against these plans, and identifying additional activities to pursue for countering online radicalization to violence.
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Throw Your Hat in the Ring for Round 2 of the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program
Posted by on February 5, 2013 at 10:00 AM EDTThe Presidential Innovation Fellows program recruits top innovators and entrepreneurs from the private sector for 6-12 month “tours of duty” in government to help develop innovative solutions in areas of national significance
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Open Government Data Spurs Entrepreneurship and Jobs
Posted by on February 4, 2013 at 8:03 PM EDTFreely available data from the US Government is an important national resource, serving as fuel for entrepreneurship, innovation, scientific discovery, and other public benefits.Our goal, as Presidential Innovation Fellows working with open data, has been to find, unlock, and promote the next wave of government data—the next GPS—that innovators can use to kickstart entrepreneurship, fuel new tools and apps, and create jobs.
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Five Private-Sector Initiatives Launched at First White House Tech Inclusion Summit
Posted by on February 4, 2013 at 7:54 PM EDTLast week, more than two hundred people convened at the White House Tech Inclusion Summit—an unprecedented gathering of innovative thinkers from business, government, non-profits, and the tech world seeking to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to learn tech skills–particularly those from underserved and historically underrepresented communities, including women and girls.
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Working Toward a Tech Sector that Reflects America
Posted by on February 1, 2013 at 6:26 PM EDTThe Technology Inclusion Summit displays the Obama Administration's commitment to expanding opportunities in the STEM fields and encouraging women and girls to pursue careers in this field.
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Introducing Alpha.Data.gov
Posted by on January 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM EDTThousands of Americans have connected with the Presidential Innovation Fellows to learn and share ideas about their work—and this Administration’s commitment—to unleash data from the vaults of the government as fuel for innovation. Based on that feedback, they created Alpha.data.gov--an online showcase that tells the story of Open Data.
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Help NASA Power the International Space Station
Posted by on January 25, 2013 at 1:24 PM EDTLast week, NASA launched the ISS Longeron Shadowing Optimization Challenge—a $30,000 competition that challenges citizen solvers to develop software algorithms that make solar panels on the International Space Station (ISS) more efficient. NASA is seeking solutions that reduce or eliminate the shadows the station casts upon itself at various points during its orbits of Earth. Ultimately, winning algorithms will help add power to the space station and expand the number and types of science experiments that can performed onboard.
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