---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sinai, Nick" <[email protected]> Date: Apr 4, 2014 10:43 AM Subject: Apply by April 7 for Presidential Innovation Fellows program To: "Sinai, Nick" <[email protected]> Cc:
Friends, I hope all is well! As you may know, applications for the Presidential Innovation Fellows <http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows> program are due this *Monday, April 7th*. We're looking for talented, diverse entrepreneurs, innovators, designers, and developers to serve their country for a tour for duty. Round 3 will include 14 projects that focus on addressing three high-impact initiatives: *Making Digital the Default: Building a 21st Century Veterans Experience:* The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is embarking on a bold new initiative to create a "digital by default" experience for our Nation's veterans that provides better, faster access to services and complements the Department's work to eliminate the disability claims backlog. *Data Innovation: Unleashing the Power of Data Resources to Improve Americans' Lives:* This initiative aim to accelerate and expand the Federal Government's efforts to liberate government data by making these information resources more accessible to the public and useable in computer readable forms, and to spur the use of those data by companies, entrepreneurs, citizens, and others to fuel the creation of new products, services, and jobs. *By the People, for the People: Crowdsourcing to Improve Government:* Crowdsourcing is a powerful way to organize people, mobilize resources, and gather information. This initiative will leverage technology and innovation to engage the American public as a strategic partner in solving difficult challenges and improving the way government works--from helping NASA find asteroid threats to human populations to improving the quality of U.S. patents to unlocking information contained in government records. More information on each project is available here<http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows/projects#section-round-3>. I also recently blogged about the Data Innovation projects here<http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/03/26/seeking-gifted-data-geeks-scientists-entrepreneurs-serve-presidential-innovation-fel> . I'd encourage you to consider applying<https://gsafas.secure.force.com/apply>! Or if you have colleagues or friends that you think might be a good fit, please feel free to forward this email. I'm also happy to answer any last minute questions. Best, Nick Sinai U.S Deputy CTO White House Office of Science and Technology Policy blog: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/blog twitter: @WhiteHouseOSTP <https://twitter.com/whitehouseostp> ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/70suR1RSnbeY0TRWeNQ7o9 For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
