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Staff from the White House and the Department of Energy recently participated in an “Energy Data Jam” in Silicon Valley—part of the Administration’s new Energy Data Initiative. The program brought together some of America’s most innovative entrepreneurs, software developers, CEOs, energy experts, and policy makers to take think creatively about how to leverage the growing volumes of publicly accessible government data to spark new private-sector tools, products, and services while rigorously protecting personal, proprietary, and national security information. Building on the success of the Green Button initiative—which is providing consumers
Todd Park, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, solicits ideas from the crowd. Photo: Sarah Lai Stirland As politicos ratchet up the election-year rhetoric over the role of the government on the campaign trail, a small group of White House staffers and volunteers from the technology community are quietly getting down to the brass tacks: They’re engaging in what amounts to a national tour to crowdsource outside-the-Beltway talent in the ongoing quest to make impenetrable government processes more accessible. “One of our primary goals here today is to get your help,” Todd Park, the nation’s chief technology officer, told a beer hall-sized
Washingtonâs new economy, on a recent Friday evening soaked by an early summer storm, is centered squarely above Marvelous Market in Dupont Circle. Its leadersâand those in their orbitâhave dripped their way through a door covered with brand stickers, up a narrow staircase, to a homey-feeling office space with a Red Bull fridge and pizza on the kitchen island. A pug runs around underfoot, hopping on couches next to people playing videogames on the flatscreen TV over the mantle.
The crowd has a few oldsters, but the average age looks closer to high school; kids mill about with beers in one hand, iPhones in the other. In fact, they
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