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Weekly Wrap Up: “We Stand Together”
Posted by on March 22, 2013 at 4:48 PM EDTHere’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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Administration Drives Release of Car Safety Data
Posted by on March 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM EDTToday, 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.
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The Road to Cutting-Edge Robots
Posted by on March 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM EDTToday, 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.
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Weekly Wrap Up: “We Don’t Have a Moment to Waste”
Posted by on March 15, 2013 at 5:08 PM EDTHere’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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Sharing Ideas that Work: How Technology can Improve Education
Posted by on March 15, 2013 at 11:27 AM EDTThis 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.
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Sunshine Week: In Celebration of Civic Engagement
Posted by on March 13, 2013 at 10:45 AM EDTAs part of our Sunshine Week series, Macon Phillips discusses We the People.
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Supporting Innovative Approaches to Spectrum Sharing
Posted by on March 11, 2013 at 9:30 AM EDTWireless 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.
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Leveraging Technology and Modernizing Government Boosts AAPI Communities
Posted by on March 5, 2013 at 6:32 PM EDTThe 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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Looking Back at the White House Hackathon
Posted by on March 2, 2013 at 11:18 AM EDTOn February 22nd, we held a hackathon where participants built tools based on the new API for We the People, the White House petitions system.
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Meet a PIF: Kara DeFrias
Posted by on March 1, 2013 at 6:19 PM EDTMeet Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF) Kara DeFrias. Kara is user-experience expert who has worked on production teams for the Oscars, the Super Bowl, and TEDx. She was inspired to delve into public service, in part, by the Dalai Lama. DeFrias' stint as PIF was based at the General Services Administration, where she worked on the myUSA project.
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