HI folks,
I got a call today from a women entrepreneur and She's Geeky conference regular. She was urging me to consider applying to be a US Presidential Innovation Fellow. Folks of any age can apply and I thought given the innovative VRM folks around here some of you might be interested in applying.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows Applications are due Sunday.
Here are a few that specifically might be interesting:
MyUSA (formerly known as MyGov) is creating a new service that helps Americans find the information and services they need across the Federal Government. Rather than organizing services around the agencies that deliver them, as most Federal websites do today, MyUSA organizes services around people and the specific tasks they need to complete.
Empowering the American people with secure access to their own personal health, energy, and education data. The MyData Initiatives seek to spread the ability for people to securely access to their own data while spurring the growth of private-sector applications and services that a person can use to crunch his or her own data for a growing array of useful purposes.
Accelerating and expanding efforts to make government information resources more publicly accessible in “computer-readable” form and spurring the use of those data by entrepreneurs as fuel for the creation of new products, services, and jobs. The Open Data Initiatives project is “liberating” government data and voluntarily-contributed corporate data to fuel entrepreneurship, create jobs, and improve the lives of Americans in tangible ways.