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Harvard offers $100K government innovation award
The Award for Public Engagement in Government is a new component to the center's standing Innovations in American Government Awards program.
Calling .gov startups: apply for the 2014 Code for America accelerator
The program lasts four months and includes training and mentorship, network and publicity, in-kind services and support and $25,000.
NASA re-launches open innovation efforts
NASA Deputy CIO and CTO for Information Technology Deborah Diaz introduced a new open innovation team via a rebooted open.nasa.gov.
NIST releases open source mobile app test tool
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released an open source tool, AppVet, that makes it easier for agencies to test mobile applications security and reliability.
Education Department wants your ideas on open data, APIs
The U.S. Department of Education has published a request for information asking for public feedback on how the agency can innovate with open data, particularly application programming interfaces.
'Open Data Now' author Joel Gurin on how businesses and government are building the data economy
'Open Data Now' author Joel Gurin discusses the impact of open data on the innovation economy and how governments are addressing this new demand.