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First-ever White House Codeathon targets Apps for Equal Futures
Posted by on December 20, 2012 at 11:38 AM ESTYesterday, we hosted the first-ever White House Codeathon! The goal of this event was to support the Equal Futures App Challenge, a challenge to create apps that inspire girls and young women to become leaders in our democracy. This challenge is in response to President Obama’s call to countries around the world to politically and economically empower women and girls.
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Encouraging Innovations that Help Americans Take Control of Their Financial Lives
Posted by on December 14, 2012 at 9:42 AM ESTData sets published by Federal agencies are increasingly being harnessed by private-sector innovators to empower consumers to take control of their financial lives. Recently, Treasury hosted a Finance Data Convening to highlight the variety of features, apps, products, and services that use finance data released by Federal agencies.
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Get with the Programming!
Posted by on December 13, 2012 at 9:12 AM ESTThis week marks what would have been the 106th birthday of Grace Hopper—an American Naval Officer known to some as “Amazing Grace” and to others as the “Mother of Computing,” whose work laid the foundation for one of the first modern computer programming languages. In recognition of her pioneering example, students, parents, schools, and communities across the Nation are spending a week in celebration of computer science education.
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Backing PCAST, Commissioners Propose Spectrum Sharing
Posted by on December 12, 2012 at 3:29 PM ESTToday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed new rules governing how wireless broadband providers can share the airwaves with Government users, adopting an innovative model first proposed earlier this year by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in its landmark report, Realizing the Full Potential of Government-Held Spectrum to Spur Economic Growth. The action comes amidst an array of Administration initiatives aimed at freeing up more spectrum for wireless broadband in order to drive productivity, jobs, and innovation, while also protecting the essential Government systems.
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Making Makers in Los Angeles
Posted by on December 12, 2012 at 9:31 AM ESTSoon after taking office in 2009, in a speech at the National Academy of Sciences, President Obama called on the science, engineering, and technology communities to “encourage young people to create and build and invent – to be makers of things not just consumers of things.” Here’s what one leader in the maker community shared about her experience bringing kids and families into the growing community of American makers.
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United Behind the Free Flow of Information
Posted by on December 11, 2012 at 12:00 AM ESTThe U.S. position is that the World Conference on International Telecommunications should be about updating a public telecommunications treaty to reflect today’s market-based realities — not a new venue to create regulations on the Internet, private networks, or the data flowing across them.
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Students Speak: “Why I’m in STEM”
Posted by on December 7, 2012 at 1:56 PM ESTThis week, OSTP asked winners and finalists from the 2012 Siemens Foundation student competition in Math, Science, and Technology to tell us why they are pursuing STEM and what it means to them. Here's what they had to say.
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Open Source and the Power of Community
Posted by on December 5, 2012 at 9:56 AM ESTWe've established an official White House presence on Drupal.org, an online community dedicated to maintaining and improving Drupal, the software that powers WhiteHouse.gov.
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OSTP Director to Stellar STEM Students: “Keep Innovating!”
Posted by on December 4, 2012 at 6:05 PM ESTOn Monday in Washington, DC, OSTP Director John Holdren spoke to an audience of scientists and innovators, including the student finalists of the Siemens Foundation Competition in Math, Science, and Technology. He made the case that a solid STEM education is one of the most powerful routes to a career that is both successful and meaningful to society.
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Preserving Internet Freedom
Posted by on November 30, 2012 at 6:20 PM ESTPresident Obama is committed to the multi-stakeholder, bottom-up, and decentralized governance structure that has been at the core of the Internet’s success and continues to be the bedrock of U.S. global Internet policy.
