Smart America

In December of 2013 the SmartAmerica Challenge was launched to bring Industry, Academia and the Government to show how Cyber-Physical Systems (the Internet of Things) can create jobs, new business opportunities and socio-economic benefits to America.

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Modernizing Form 990

With a focus on Open Data, PIFs worked to modernize Form 990 from the IRS, as well as working to release all the data from electronically filed nonprofit tax returns.

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Code.gov

The first ever catalog of federal software; an open source initiative inviting developers to support federal software development.

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VA Innovation Creation Series

Our vision is to accelerate development of personalized technologies to improve care and quality of life for Veterans with disabilities by initiating the VA Innovation Creation Series powered by VA Center for Innovation.

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Smart Cities

The White House launched the Smart Cities Initiative to make it easier for cities, Federal agencies, universities, and the private sector to work together to research, develop, deploy, and testbed new technologies that can help make our cities more inhabitable, cleaner, and more equitable.

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Caseflow Certification

Caseflow Certification is the first of many tools that will begin to improve the processing of benefit claim appeals at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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Lantern Live

DOE's newly released "Lantern Live" mobile app allows users in disaster-affected areas to report on the status of local gas stations, find fuel, and easily look up power outage maps from local utilities.

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OSMGeoWeek

Teachers, students, community groups, map lovers, in the US and around the world, join together to celebrate geography and make maps with OpenStreetMap, the free and openly editable map of the world.

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White House Mapathon

Citizen cartographers join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Office of Digital Strategy for the first-ever White House Mapathon.

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MapGive

MapGive is a Department of State public diplomacy program designed to engage volunteers to map in OpenStreetMap for humanitarian and development missions.

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NOAA Big Data Project

The NOAA Big Data Project (BDP) was created to explore the potential benefits of storing copies of key observations and model outputs in the Cloud to allow computing directly on the data without requiring further distribution.

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Citizen Science

Citizenscience.gov is an official government website designed to accelerate the use of crowdsourcing and citizen science across the U.S. government.

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