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U.S. Launches Digital Roadmap To Open Up Government Data And Court Developers
techcrunch.com 1 week, 1 day agoThere’s all sorts of data that the government has, but very little of it is actually accessible by developers. But the U.S. Government is trying to change that: Wednesday at TechCrunch Disrupt, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel announced a new initiative within the government to open up data that was previously locked up in government documents and arcane backend systems. That will allow developers to create new applications and services based on that dat
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US CTO Todd Park: Obama Has A Very High Geek Quotient, But It’s All A Means To An End
techcrunch.com 1 week, 1 day agoPresident Barack Obama is famous for his affinity for his BlackBerry and science fairs , but the tech love goes a lot further than that. Todd Park, the U.S. chief technology officer, today described the President as having a “very high geek quotient” with a “go go go” attitude when it comes to new tech initiatives , which, yes, he likes in and of themselves, but more importantly as a means to an end. The comments were made during a fireside chat at TC Disrupt in New York , where Park along with U.S. CIO Ste
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