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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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Creating What You Can Imagine, Changing the World
Posted by on March 1, 2013 at 5:26 PM EDTMarch is Women’s History Month. There is no better time to engage and empower the next generation of girls to rise up as leaders of our democracy and economy. In that spirit, last week, schools, companies, and labs across the country engaged in a range of activities aimed at getting girls excited about classes and careers in the field of engineering—all part of the 13th annual “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.”
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Meet a PIF: Henry Wei
Posted by on February 26, 2013 at 7:00 PM EDTMeet Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF) Henry Wei. Henry is a self described "geek" and certified medical doctor who is trained in sleep and circadian neuroscience and wields skills in medical informatics. Wei's stint as PIF was based at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he worked on the Blue Button for America project.
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Taking Action for a Stronger, Smarter, Cleaner Electric Grid
Posted by on February 26, 2013 at 9:25 AM EDTToday, the Obama Administration’s National Science and Technology Council released A Policy Framework for the 21st Century Grid: A Progress Report—an update highlighting the Administration’s recent achievements to make the Nation’s electric grid stronger, smarter, and cleaner than ever before. Modernizing the grid is a common sense approach to enhance energy reliability and speed the Nation’s transition to a clean-energy economy.
