The Smart Disclosure Community is designed to accelerate these innovations and fuel the next generation of tools to help consumers manage their decisions in a variety of domains, including: education, energy, environment, finance, food and nutrition, health, housing, safety, and transportation.
Today, the Obama Administration launched the Smart Disclosure Data Community at Consumer.
The new app, called EcoHub, will initially be tested with and available to residents of the Pecan Street demonstration project, a smart grid living community in Austin.
Entrepreneurs, innovators, suppliers of consumer goods and services, and members of the public are invited to explore the Smart Disclosure Data Community and join the conversation in our community forums.
Through fostering smart ideas, mobilizing smart people and supporting the co-creation of smart ventures with community leaders, George Roter has been able to transform EWB into an organization capable of producing sustainable system-changing solutions.
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Now, that said, they have also been a little lucky and a little smart in keeping the community together.
From this platform we hope to reach and build a global community of smart, accomplished women who are curious about one another.
While EnableTalk is initially targeting the deaf community, the smart glove technology that they are developing has a much broader market, one that is embracing the very real prospect of wearable computing.
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The alliance's manifesto calls for measures to reduce demand on the main electricity transmission grid, including smart meters, encouragement for community and small-scale local energy generation, and further research on methods of storage of electricity.
Now, because of what these students are doing, the Smart House has been embraced by the community for the many benefits that it can provide.
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As these companies can attest, a Dollars for Doers program encourages your employees to increase their community impact and is a smart move to strengthen your CSR standing.
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Today smart TV makers want an apps developer community to jazz up the screen interaction and they are looking at integrating many of the functions in the different consoles that connect to the TV, so think X-Box gesture control built-in to your Samsung.
The i2 initiative builds on the success of prize competitions under the Department of Health and Human Services Community Health Data Initiative and the SMART Apps for Health challenge that closed last week.
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Like microgeneration, the idea of such "smart grids" has been circulating in the energy community for some time.
Leeds is impressed by Quora, but sees a lot of questions there go unanswered, which is likely a function of Quora being a narrow community so far: a group of smart, tech-industry types hovering around Silicon Valley topics like the startup racket and programming.
The second catalyst is the proliferation of smart devices, both in the government workplace and in the constituent community.
Smart marketers realize their products are merchandise, but brands are a community of people who share similar tastes, values, and a communal sense of belonging.
There are also plans afoot to revitalize its branches, to make them more vibrant community hubs and for students homework help center, equipped with smart boards and free tutoring services.
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None of it would be possible without the dedicated staff at Longley, the support of district personnel, the help from community partners, the trust of the parents, and our smart, eager students.
We will build on the work that's being done in places like Boulder, Colorado, a community that is on pace to be the world's first Smart Grid city.
Iain Masson Smart (Isle of Skye, Ross and Cromarty) - For services to the community on the Isle of Skye.
These "smart" technologies can help business too, of course, as they help cement a community of four or five billion people who will be connected to each other via the internet, each and every one of them a potential customer.
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An experiment in industrial order and community planning, the neighborhood features a design that was intelligent in 1880 and "smart" today.
"I think it's going to make it tougher for smart development to happen because the people who are impacted by the development won't accept a community benefits agreement in the bargaining process, " said Mr. Morgan.
In its latest January 2011 conference call, Intel Corporation forecasted that by 2015, another 1 billion people will join the online community, and another 15 billion new connected devices such as the PCs, tablets and smart phones will be added to the global market place.
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The Community announced today is a first-of-its-kind centralized platform containing over 400 smart disclosure data sets and resources from dozens of agencies across government.
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