Tag Archives: Megan Smith

Twenty communities have joined a program launched by President Barack Obama to train people for technological jobs that employers have struggled to fill. Ryan Burke, special assistant to the President for economic policy, wrote in a blog post published Friday on the White House website the TechHire program has grown to …

The White House has announced seven new initiatives as part of the Third Open Government National Action Plan that seeks to promote transparency, innovation and accountability in the government. The White House said in a report released Tuesday two of the initiatives seek to support open contracting and promote transparency …

The White House has published a report that describes how organizations should use big data and algorithmic systems to detect human bias and avoid discrimination. According to a White House blog entry posted Wednesday, the report also seeks to illustrate how the use of big data to expand opportunity may also introduce inadvertent bias through case studies on credit …

Ashkan Soltani, former chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission, has joined the White House’s office of science and technology policy as a senior adviser to Federal Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, FCW’s Insider blog reported Wednesday. Bianca Spinosa writes Lorrie Faith Cranor, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, will serve …

The White House has issued a third edition of its national action plan to promote transparency and civic participation in the government. A White House blog post published Tuesday says the Open Government National Action Plan contains over 40 new programs that represent the U.S. government’s efforts to improve government service delivery, fiscal transparency …

The White House and the U.K. government have moved to expand collaboration between the two countries’ technical groups in an effort to improve the delivery of digital services and share best practices on digital operations. Office of Management and Budget director Shaun Donovan and federal chief technology officer Megan Smith …

Dr. Ed Felten, professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University, has been appointed as the White House’s deputy chief technology officer. He will work to help develop technical strategies for the federal government to deliver services and engage citizens, according to a Monday blog post by U.S. …

The White House has appointed Dr. DJ Patil as the U.S. government’s first chief data scientist and as deputy chief technology officer for data policy. Dr. Patil will be responsible for helping the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop innovation policies and strategies as well as promote collaborative projects …

Federal Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith has highlighted the government’s desire to hire people with a “technical quotient” to help U.S. digital services offices meet demands of the public, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Smith told a conference in Washington that the government could invite coders and engineers from the private sector to …

Federal Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith has been applying her technology experience in the private sector to help the U.S. government address technical problems, the New York Times reported Saturday. In the four months since assuming the federal CTO role, Smith has advised President Barack Obama on national broadband service …