[open-government] RSVP to "Hangout" during White House Safety Datapalooza - Tue Jan 14, Official Media Advisory

Fri Jan 10 20:17:19 UTC 2014

Next Tuesday, Jan. 14 starting at 9 a.m. Eastern, the White House and
Federal agencies are hosting an exciting open government event:

"Safety Datapalooza, featuring innovators from the private, nonprofit,
and academic sectors  who have utilized freely available government
data to build products, services, and apps to advance public safety in
creative and powerful ways. The event will feature safety data
resources in areas ranging from transportation to food to consumer
product safety, as well as tools to improve disaster preparedness and
emergency response and to help empower Americans with information to
make smarter, safer choices."

After the three hour webcast, those at the in-person event will be
connecting via small group brainstorms.

Why not the rest of us too?

Time for a virtual video "hangout" to go in-depth beyond the pithy
#safetydata hashtag.

E-Democracy.org is working with folks at the MIT Media Lab, the Smart
Chicago Collaborative, and a bunch of volunteer facilitators to host
...

*** Unofficial White House Safety Datapalooza Live Video Hangout ***

We are using a network of Google Hangouts combined with MIT's
experimental Unhangout tool.

RSVP for limited slots now:

     http://e-democracy.org/civictechhangout

This unofficial hangout will center on a 45 minute brainstorming
dialogue being fed into short discussion summaries that will be
forwarded to interested White House and government staff we have
engaged directly in recent weeks.

There are a mix of general and thematic break-outs based on interest.

Our video "lobby" will open at 12Noon and officially start our program
at 12:30 p.m. Eastern (for those in the UK, that's 7:30 p.m.)

As official government links emerge we are also linking them here
(webcast, Twitter, and more):

     http://e-democracy.org/civictechhangout

To tune into to two-way exchange during the event outside of video, see:

1. Twitter #safetydata - http://bit.ly/safetydatatwitter

2. Safety Data LinkedIN Group - http://bit.ly/safetydatalinkedin  (experiment)

3. Safety Data Facebook Group - http://bit.ly/safetydatafacebook (experiment)

Also check out Smart Chicago's Datapalooza Resources blog post:
http://bit.ly/smartchicagosafetydata

Thanks,
Steven Clift
Executive Director, E-Democracy.org
FYI - New Voices in Civic Tech: http://bit.ly/newvoicescivictech

Full media advisory from the White House:

Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President
Eisenhower  Executive Office Building
Washington, DC 20504

FOR PLANNING PURPOSES
January 10, 2013
Media Contacts:
Moira Vahey, 202-456-3545
mvahey at ostp.eop.gov
Yewande Addie, 202-720-4623Yewande.Addie at oc.usda.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY

The White House, U.S. Department of Transportation, and U.S.
Department of Agriculture to Host Safety Datapalooza

On Tuesday, the White House, the U.S. Department of Transportation,
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture will host a "Safety
Datapalooza," featuring innovators from the private, nonprofit, and
academic sectors  who have utilized freely available government data
to build products, services, and apps to advance public safety in
creative and powerful ways. The event will feature safety data
resources in areas ranging from transportation to food to consumer
product safety, as well as tools to improve disaster preparedness and
emergency response and to help empower Americans with information to
make smarter, safer choices.

Over the past few years, this Administration has launched a series of
Open Data Initiatives, which have released troves of valuable data
that were previously hard to access in areas such as health, energy,
education, public safety, and global development. These data are being
used by innovators, businesses, researchers, and the public to create
new services and applications that benefit Americans.

DATE:  Tuesday, January 14, 2013
TIME:  9:00 a.m. ET until approximately 12:00 p.m. ET

LOCATION:
United States Department of Agriculture
Jefferson Auditorium
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C.

KEYSPEAKERS:

·         The Honorable Krysta Harden, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture

·         The Honorable Seth D. Harris, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor

·         Todd Park, Assistant to the President, U.S. Chief Technology Officer

·         The Honorable Rich Serino, Deputy Administrator  of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency

·         The Honorable Robert Adler, Acting Chairman of the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission

·         The Honorable Gregory Winfree, Administrator of the Research
and Innovative Technology Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation

·         The Honorable Janice Jacobs, Assistant Secretary for
Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State

·         The Honorable Patricia Hoffman, Assistant Secretary for the
Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department
of Energy

·         The Honorable Dr. Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary for
Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services

The event will also feature demonstrations of safety tools, apps, and
resources by a range of developers, startups, businesses, researchers,
and innovators.

REGISTRATION:  To attend in-person, media must RSVP to
Yewande.Addie at oc.usda.gov with the name, media outlet, phone, and
email for each person planning to cover the event by Monday, January
13 at 4:00PM ET, with the subject line "Safety Datapalooza".  On the
day of the event, media must enter Wing 5 of the United States
Department of Agriculture South Building on Independence Avenue, SW.

WEBCAST: This event will be webcast live at http://www.Wh.gov/safetydatapalooza

For more information, visit  http://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp

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Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
  Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org
  Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy
  Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072

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