- From: Steven Clift <clift@e-democracy.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:17:19 -0600
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Next Tuesday, Jan. 14 starting at 9 a.m. Eastern, the White House and Federal agencies are hosting an exciting open government event: "Safety Datapalooza, featuring innovators from the private, nonprofit, and academic sectors who have utilized freely available government data to build products, services, and apps to advance public safety in creative and powerful ways. The event will feature safety data resources in areas ranging from transportation to food to consumer product safety, as well as tools to improve disaster preparedness and emergency response and to help empower Americans with information to make smarter, safer choices." After the three hour webcast, those at the in-person event will be connecting via small group brainstorms. Why not the rest of us too? Time for a virtual video "hangout" to go in-depth beyond the pithy #safetydata hashtag. E-Democracy.org is working with folks at the MIT Media Lab, the Smart Chicago Collaborative, and a bunch of volunteer facilitators to host ... *** Unofficial White House Safety Datapalooza Live Video Hangout *** We are using a network of Google Hangouts combined with MIT's experimental Unhangout tool. RSVP for limited slots now: http://e-democracy.org/civictechhangout This unofficial hangout will center on a 45 minute brainstorming dialogue being fed into short discussion summaries that will be forwarded to interested White House and government staff we have engaged directly in recent weeks. There are a mix of general and thematic break-outs based on interest. Our video "lobby" will open at 12Noon and officially start our program at 12:30 p.m. Eastern (for those in the UK, that's 7:30 p.m.) As official government links emerge we are also linking them here (webcast, Twitter, and more): http://e-democracy.org/civictechhangout To tune into to two-way exchange during the event outside of video, see: 1. Twitter #safetydata - http://bit.ly/safetydatatwitter 2. Safety Data LinkedIN Group - http://bit.ly/safetydatalinkedin (experiment) 3. Safety Data Facebook Group - http://bit.ly/safetydatafacebook (experiment) Also check out Smart Chicago's Datapalooza Resources blog post: http://bit.ly/smartchicagosafetydata Thanks, Steven Clift Executive Director, E-Democracy.org FYI - New Voices in Civic Tech: http://bit.ly/newvoicescivictech Full media advisory from the White House: Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive Office of the President Eisenhower Executive Office Building Washington, DC 20504 FOR PLANNING PURPOSES January 10, 2013 Media Contacts: Moira Vahey, 202-456-3545 mvahey@ostp.eop.gov Yewande Addie, 202-720-4623Yewande.Addie@oc.usda.gov MEDIA ADVISORY The White House, U.S. Department of Transportation, and U.S. Department of Agriculture to Host Safety Datapalooza On Tuesday, the White House, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture will host a "Safety Datapalooza," featuring innovators from the private, nonprofit, and academic sectors who have utilized freely available government data to build products, services, and apps to advance public safety in creative and powerful ways. The event will feature safety data resources in areas ranging from transportation to food to consumer product safety, as well as tools to improve disaster preparedness and emergency response and to help empower Americans with information to make smarter, safer choices. Over the past few years, this Administration has launched a series of Open Data Initiatives, which have released troves of valuable data that were previously hard to access in areas such as health, energy, education, public safety, and global development. These data are being used by innovators, businesses, researchers, and the public to create new services and applications that benefit Americans. DATE: Tuesday, January 14, 2013 TIME: 9:00 a.m. ET until approximately 12:00 p.m. ET LOCATION: United States Department of Agriculture Jefferson Auditorium 1400 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, D.C. KEYSPEAKERS: · The Honorable Krysta Harden, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture · The Honorable Seth D. Harris, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor · Todd Park, Assistant to the President, U.S. Chief Technology Officer · The Honorable Rich Serino, Deputy Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency · The Honorable Robert Adler, Acting Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission · The Honorable Gregory Winfree, Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation · The Honorable Janice Jacobs, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State · The Honorable Patricia Hoffman, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy · The Honorable Dr. Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The event will also feature demonstrations of safety tools, apps, and resources by a range of developers, startups, businesses, researchers, and innovators. REGISTRATION: To attend in-person, media must RSVP to Yewande.Addie@oc.usda.gov with the name, media outlet, phone, and email for each person planning to cover the event by Monday, January 13 at 4:00PM ET, with the subject line "Safety Datapalooza". On the day of the event, media must enter Wing 5 of the United States Department of Agriculture South Building on Independence Avenue, SW. WEBCAST: This event will be webcast live at http://www.Wh.gov/safetydatapalooza For more information, visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp ### Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 Watch my recent speech: http://bit.ly/newvoicesvideo
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