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Safety Data Jam connects Tech Innovators with Public Safety Officers
Posted by on June 8, 2012 at 11:08 AM EDTGovernment data are being released in unprecedented quantities as part of the Administration’s commitment to increase transparency, public participation, and collaboration.
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What It Means to be a Presidential Innovation Fellow
Posted by on June 7, 2012 at 4:09 PM EDTThe new Presidential Innovation Fellows initiative, announced at TechCrunch Disrupt last month, will pair top innovators from the private sector, academia, and non-profits with top innovators in government to work together to deliver game-changing solutions for the American people.
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Green Button Momentum
Posted by on June 7, 2012 at 12:33 PM EDTThe Obama Administration has partnered with the utility industry and challenged them to make it easier for electricity customers to get secure online access to their own household or building energy-use in a consumer- and computer-friendly format, called “Green Button.” Responding to a call by President Obama to help families and businesses take better control of their energy bills, a number of companies announced their commitment to use the Green Button standard in their products.
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Green Button Momentum
Posted by on June 7, 2012 at 11:30 AM EDTTo make it easier for business and consumers to save energy and money, we need to make it easier for them to understand how they use energy.
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Advanced Materials: Giving Soldiers a Decisive Edge in Combat
Posted by on June 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM EDTThe science of advanced materials is increasingly providing the technological foundation for protecting our Nation’s warfighters.
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Brainstorming With Energy Data
Posted by on June 5, 2012 at 6:01 PM EDTBuilding on the success of the Green Button initiative—which is providing consumers with secure access to their own energy data and has facilitated the voluntary release of energy-use data in computer-readable form to encourage private-sector innovation—the Energy Data Initiative aims to harness the power of energy data through a combination of technology and ingenuity.
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Making It Easier for Veterans to Get Quality Advanced Manufacturing Jobs
Posted by on June 5, 2012 at 4:25 PM EDTSpeaking at Honeywell’s Golden Valley facility in Minnesota last week, the President announced a new initiative that will help thousands of U.S. military members obtain portable, industry-recognized credentials that will help them land quality jobs in advanced manufacturing and other fields after they leave the service.
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Reaching Out to Fight Veteran Homelessness
Posted by on June 5, 2012 at 2:01 PM EDTProject REACH challenged developers to create a convenient mobile application so that local resources are available to those who need them most – our homeless veterans. The ultimate goal is to create a national platform that identifies available services such as health clinics, food kitchens, housing services, and shelters at any location around the country.
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Progress on Preparing More Undergraduates with STEM Degrees and Teaching Credentials
Posted by on May 30, 2012 at 4:18 PM EDTA commitment to President Obama's call to action to train high-quality science, technology, engineering, and math teachers is well ahead of schedule.
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Putting Data to Work for Food Security
Posted by on May 25, 2012 at 2:15 PM EDTThe USAID is launching a Food Security Open Data Challenge to bring together technologists, food security experts, entrepreneurs, and others to work with key datasets and determine how many can support solutions to the most pressing issues in food security.
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