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  • White House Hangout: The Maker Movement

    On Thursday, March 28th at 3:00 pm ET, White House innovation advisor Tom Kalil will join a Google+ Hangout to discuss the Maker Movement with leading innovators and Makers from around the country.


  • Calling all Innovators: Demo @ the Next Health Datapalooza

    One of the many ways the Federal Government is contributing to the transformation of health care is by unleashing vast amounts of data from the vaults of government, while rigorously protecting privacy. These public data resources, made openly available in machine-readable form, include a broad range of useful information that fuel for innovation and entrepreneurship.


  • Weekly Wrap Up: “We Stand Together”

    Here’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.


  • Administration Drives Release of Car Safety Data

    Today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a new "SaferCar" app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices. This new app puts the power of NHTSA's tremendous volume of vehicle safety data, including real-time vehicle safety information from NHTSA’s SaferCar.gov site, at the fingertips of American consumers.


  • The Road to Cutting-Edge Robots

    Today, leaders from academia and industry unveiled A Roadmap for US Robotics: From Internet to Robotics—a new report on robotics research, development, and education in the United States. The Roadmap, funded in part by Federal grants, builds on President Obama’s June 2011 announcement of the National Robotics Initiative (NRI)—a broad effort to develop robots that can work with humans to extend and augment human skills.


  • Weekly Wrap Up: “We Don’t Have a Moment to Waste”

    Here’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.


  • Sharing Ideas that Work: How Technology can Improve Education

    This week, school leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, and leading educational thinkers gathered in New York City to share innovative ideas about how technology can improve education. The gathering is being led by the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools—a national center created by Congress and launched at the White House in 2011 to advance technologies to transform teaching and learning.


  • Sunshine Week: In Celebration of Civic Engagement

    As part of our Sunshine Week series, Macon Phillips discusses We the People.


  • Supporting Innovative Approaches to Spectrum Sharing

    Wireless technology continues to drive innovation and productivity in the United States, fueling economic growth and creating jobs.The President’s strategy for expanding the capacity of high-speed wireless broadband services across the Nation may get a boost from a new Defense Department Initiative to fund research and development of innovative new approaches to spectrum sharing.


  • Leveraging Technology and Modernizing Government Boosts AAPI Communities

    The AAPI community is greatly affected by this administration's support of technology equality. Although nearly 20 percent of the AAPI coummunity lives without access to the Internet, they are also the demographic group to use social networking the most.


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