Todd Park
Todd Park
Todd Park is a technology advisor based in Silicon Valley for the Obama Administration. He was formerly the second Chief Technology Officer of the United States, replacing the United States' first CTO Aneesh Chopra. On September 4, 2014, it was announced that Megan Smith would replace Park...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
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We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and to make government data more accessible and usable for entrepreneurs, companies, researchers, and citizens everywhere - innovators who can leverage these resources to benefit Americans in a rapidly growing array of exciting and powerful ways.
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There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.
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I look forward to doing everything I can in my new role to help bring more and more of the best talent and best ideas from Silicon Valley and across the nation into government.
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Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.
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We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.
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Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.
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It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.
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I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.
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When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices.
experience
Unfortunately, the experience on HealthCare.gov has been highly frustrating for many Americans. These problems are unacceptable.
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When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from the others was that they were not in it for the stock options, but for a mission - to deliver something that was helpful... Every entrepreneurial journey, it turns out, is like this.
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Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America
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Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.
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Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.