Park, VanRoekel Seek Next Class Of Change Agents

Frank Konkel | FCW | February 5, 2013

The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is again looking for top innovators and entrepreneurs from the private sector, non-profits and academia to collaborate with government officials for 6-month to 12-month tours of duty focused on developing solutions to nationally important issues.

The program seeks applicants to work on the next phases of four projects launched last year – open data initiatives, MyData initiatives, RFP-EZ and MyUSA projects – as well as applicants to help launch five new projects in 2013.

The new projects are detailed in a Feb. 5 White House blog post by Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel and Federal CTO Todd Park. They are...