"This is an exciting time for public service and the tech sector to come together and collaborate to drive innovation forward," says Hillary Hartley, Chief Digital Officer and Deputy Minister Responsible for Digital Government.
Read More“The robotics revolution is every bit as big as you are led to believe,” said Eric Daimler, an artificial-intelligence expert and the keynote speaker at Bowling Green State University’s State of the Region program.
Read MoreAccording to Kin Lane, an API evangelist, vendors that have been investing in API platforms have begun to shift the focus toward event-driven architecture and have developed an API governance strategy to optimize their investment.
Read MoreRobert Zakon made another analogy to electricity. He wondered what net neutrally will do in terms of internet providers charging consumers.
Read MoreAaron Snow is the latest member of the 18F team to come to Canada. CDS previously nabbed Lena Trudeau, who worked at 18F, and Hillary Hartley another 18F founding member is now the Ontario government’s chief digital officer.
Read MoreDuring a conversation, the topic turned to the difficulty of attracting students to government tech work; Jeff Meisel had tried to organize a data science internship the previous year, but it attracted no student interest.
Read MoreThe Treasury Board Secretariat is pleased to announce that Aaron Snow will be joining the organization as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Canadian Digital Service (CDS) in early April. As CEO of CDS, he will be responsible for fundamentally improving federal digital service delivery across the Government of Canada, with partner departments.
Read More“The résumé is such a weird tool,” said Jason Shen, founder of Headlight, a performance hiring platform developer based in New York. “It’s a biographical sketch, and the information is hard to verify.”
Read MoreDavid Eaves, a lecturer in public policy, met Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, and was recruited to give tech training to new Presidential Innovation Fellows and Code for America fellows.
Read MoreWhile Federal CIO Suzette Kent is brand new to government, many of the federal officials picked for the board have been highlighted as modernization leaders or have positions located at the nexus of federal technology, modernization and procurement, such as Charles Worthington, CTO for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Read MoreNick Sinai connected the co-founders with Jeff Meisel, Chief Marketing Officer of the Census Bureau, and they began crafting the fellowship as a fully funded model that would provide housing, travel, and stipends, as well as enrichment activities and challenging projects for a student cohort.
Read MoreDenice Ross, a former Presidential Innovation Fellow who is now a Public Interest Technology Fellow at the nonprofit New America, said the current danger surrounding open data is "that it's not an active priority."
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