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IFE’s relentless pursuit…
“What sets IFE apart is its relentless pursuit of “the next big thing”- and the people who are working everyday in Washington on the most innovative new ideas that will change our city, our country and our world. IFE and Coach Kathy Kemper’s extraordinary support of the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, through INFO public policy […]
INFO Public Policy Salon on ” Trickle-Up Innovation: How Governments Can Support Grassroots Science & Tech”
The Institute of Education presented an INFO Public Policy Salon on ” Trickle-Up Innovation: How Governments Can Support Grassroots Science & Tech.” A panel discussion with White House Presidential Innovation Fellows Garren Givens and Hillary Hartley and Andreas Lederberger of the Swiss Embassy. Since its inception in 2012, the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program, the brainchild of […]
CODE RED_Obama’s Trauma Team: How an unlikely group of high-tech wizards revived HealthCare.gov
IFE’s very own Todd Park on the COVER of Time!!!! Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned at the headquarters of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency in charge of […]
Technology or Teachers?
“Technology or Teachers?” By Kathy Kemper - Posted: 02/19/2014 9:57 am EST The White House recently announced a nearly $1 billion private sector commitment to ConnectED, an initiative that President Obama launched last summer to connect 99% of the nation’s students to high-speed Internet by 2017. The hope is that greater connectivity can play a significant role in improving student […]
