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The Foundation for Change sent out an e-mail today that commemorates tomorrow as the President’s hundredth day in office. The group created an interactive map that gives a state-by-state progress report regarding jobs saved or created, tax benefits, children’s health care, student aid, and an example Recovery Act project. The site is supported by the [...]
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President Obama addressed the 146th annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences meeting this morning (audio here). The speech reaffirms the role and importance of science, indicating that “science is more important for our security, health and economy than ever before.” It also affirms the need to invest in science research, with a commitment [...]
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Obama will be naming Aneesh Paul Chopra as his choice as the first CTO for the nation during tomorrow’s weekly address, as confirmed in this press release posted to the White House’s official web site and reported on Tech Crunch. Chopra serves as Virginia’s Secretary of Technology, and previously worked as Managing Director with the [...]
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With Obama’s pledge to pursue the elimination of nuclear weapons, it becomes interesting to consider where all the nukes are in the world. The world’s nuclear powers, in order of the size of their arsenals, are Russia, the United States, France, China, United Kingdom, Israel, Pakistan, India and North Korea. The Federation of American Scientists [...]
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In a ceremony yesterday, President Obama signed the Ominibus Public Land Management Act, which includes significant spending on mapping. In Obama’s words, the bill accomplishes many things: “It designates more than 2 million acres across nine states as wilderness; almost as much as was designated over the past eight years combined. It creates thousands of [...]
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The sixth GEO Plenary session will take place Nov. 18-19, 2009 in Washington, D.C. The event will bring together members and participating organization of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to discuss the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). This event takes place annually with the past two events taking place in Cape Town, [...]
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President Obama’s draft budget contains provisions for a carbon cap-and-trade system that will pump $80 Billion into revenue coffers to fund renewable energy programs and increase energy efficiency. The proposal would force heavy polluters to buy credits from companies that pollute less, creating incentive to reduce emissions and drive back global warming. Big business is [...]
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Obama made mention of Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity while signing the stimulus package. I wrote an overview of this effort in October, outlining the need for more detailed and accurate geospatial data. Read this feature on V1 Magazine.
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Yesterday, President Obama delivered a memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies regarding transparency and open government. The memo outlines the position that government should be transparent, participatory and collaborative with the Internet as a key conduit for this information. The memo also outlines the role of the Chief Technology Officer in coordinating [...]
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President Obama worked to reverse the EPA’s stance on California’s tougher auto emission laws and sent a message to automakers that more stringent emission and fuel economy standards would be established. The EPA was directed to review California’s standards, an action that the Bush administration had blocked. Stricter fuel-efficiency requirments will be coming for 2011 [...]
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