He was appointed with a fair bit of fanfare as the United States' first Chief Technology Officer back in May of 2009, but it looks like Aneesh Chopra ...
Politics seems to be in everything now. Whether it is your home loan, your school loan; even your reproductive rights or the right to bear arms. Belie...
Open source technology and collaborative models will matter in media, mapping, education, smarter cities, national security, disaster response and much more in 2011 and beyond.
As the new year beckons, there are more ways for the citizens of the United States of America to provide feedback to their federal government than perhaps there ever have been in its history.
Open innovation isn't a "nice to do," it's a must do in order to strengthen our democracy. In the state and local governments, open government may be poised for sustainability.
Aneesh Chopra makes sure that the technology, data and innovation aspects of any given policy that comes before the president are thought through and are considered in a little more aggressive way.
Imagine an iPhone-like "app store" for medical apps that can give a consumer, a doctor, or any healthcare practitioner the access to a wide variety of applications that can help the process of care.
The President has launched a series of initiatives to open the government that led a coalition of good government groups to give the administration an A grade for transparency.
The air was abuzz with excitement as software developers and entrepreneurs converged to demonstrate dozens of new tools they had developed over the last 12 weeks from freely available data on health performance compiled by the DHHS.
Vote iQ political social networking platform listens to voters
By Mike Smith
Huffington Post Blogger
Mike Smith Public Affairs, Washington, DC
The P...
On Tuesday, the Obama administration acted on a promise the president made on his first day in office -- to make government agencies more transparent,...
Hoping to provide the backbone for a grand plan to put the nation's medical records online, federal officials have been quietly retooling an obscure g...
Consumer education is critical. Whether we as Americans will adopt smart grid and pay small surcharges, knowing the impact we have on carbon footprint, seems the biggest challenge.
President Obama appointed Aneesh Chopra, Virginia's former technology secretary, as the nation's first chief technology officer and charged him with p...