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Recap: A Big Day for Open Data
Posted by on May 10, 2013 at 4:50 PM EDTYesterday, President Obama visited Austin, Texas, to kick off his Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour. At Capital Factory, a local start-up incubator, he met with technology entrepreneurs and innovative companies that are helping grow our economy and create jobs by building new products and services. One of those companies, Stormpulse, uses freely available government weather data to help businesses protect themselves.
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Weekly Wrap Up: “We Move Forward”
Posted by on May 10, 2013 at 3:53 PM EDTHere's quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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Games Win Big in Education Grants Competition
Posted by on May 10, 2013 at 12:56 PM EDTToday, the U.S. Department of Education announced the final winners of this year’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awards—funds that are reserved for entrepreneurial small businesses using cutting-edge R&D to develop commercially viable technologies to solve tough problems.
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President Obama Talks Jobs, Skills and Opportunity in Austin
Posted by on May 9, 2013 at 6:00 PM EDTPresident Obama kicks off a series of Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tours focused on the his core agenda: creating a strong and vibrant economy built on good middle class jobs.
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Open Data for Climate and Health Insights
Posted by on May 9, 2013 at 1:28 PM EDTToday, in conjunction with a series of landmark steps announced by the Obama Administration to unleash troves of useful data from the vaults of government, the interagency US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) launched a new online tool that promises to accelerate research relating to climate change and human health—the Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health, or “MATCH.”
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Landmark Steps to Liberate Open Data
Posted by on May 9, 2013 at 11:45 AM EDTPresident Obama signs an Executive Order directing historic steps to make government-held data more accessible to the public and to entrepreneurs and others as fuel for innovation and economic growth.
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White House Champions of Change: Seeking Immigrant Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Posted by on May 6, 2013 at 7:01 PM EDTThe White House Office of Public Engagement will host a Champions of Change event focused on immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs – the best and brightest from around the world who are helping create American jobs, grow our economy, and make our nation more competitive.
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Full Speed Ahead for Open Ag Data
Posted by on May 6, 2013 at 9:24 AM EDTLast week, hundreds of innovators gathered at the World Bank IFC Center to brainstorm about how Open Data can be harnessed to help meet the challenge of sustainably feeding nine billion people by 2050, as part of the first-of-its-kind G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture.
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Green Button: Enabling Energy Innovation
Posted by on May 2, 2013 at 9:12 AM EDTLast year, in response to the Obama Administration’s call to action, 35 utilities and energy providers committed to provide 36 million homes and businesses with their own energy usage information in the consensus, industry-standard Green Button format. Today, we’re excited to see Green Button enable energy innovation through new announcements for the industry-led Green Button Initiative.
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There's Now an API for We the People
Posted by on May 1, 2013 at 4:34 PM EDTWe're making it easier for anyone to do their own analysis or build their own apps on top of the We the People platform with a new API.
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