Champions of Change

Champions of Change: Technology And Innovation

As the White House executes President Obama’s plan to “out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world,” Champions of Change honored 17 entrepreneurs who embody the President’s commitment to "innovate, educate, and build" through innovative work using technology in their community.

Dave Augustine, Bob Burbach and Andrew Carpenter are three developers that have taken the Federal Register -- the daily newspaper of the U.S. Government originally created in 1935 that: compiles...

One process that bogs down cities is answering zoning questions. Apps for Californians winner ZonabilitySF is an iPhone app for helping San Francisco homebuyers, renters, remodelers and others...

Bob Burbach, Dave Augustine and Andrew Carpenter are developers that have taken the Federal Register, the daily newspaper of the U.S. Government originally created in 1935 that compiles new and...

Dave Augustine, Bob Burbach, and Andrew Carpenter are three developers that have taken the Federal Register, the daily newspaper of the U.S. Government originally created in 1935 that compiles new...

These two open source developers, David Emory and Brian Ferris, caught the attention of the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Portland (TriMet) when the agency wanted a new public...

Apps for Californians-winner California Cage Fight was an app submitted by SymSoft Solutions, a 15-employee Web development and integration firm that has built up an impressive roster of state and...

These two open source developers, David Emory and Brian Ferris, caught the attention of the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Portland (TriMet) when the agency wanted a new public...

Waldo Jaquith, a Web site developer, political pundit and currently the Web Developer at The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, is an open government activist. He runs...

Randall Leeds and Brian T. Rice are two developers that helped create an open source Social Services 211 system for the Portland, Oregon area. Their project is in the preliminary stages, but has...

Daniel O’Neil and Harper Reed have worked together on several noteworthy projects, including citypayments.org. Citypayments.org is a portal database of all vendors, contracts and payments that...

Michael Riedijk is creator of YouTown, an app already attracting interest among several local governments. It enables cities and counties to feed their open data into a free, prepackaged,...

Brian Rice and Randall Leeds are two developers that helped create an open source Social Services 211 system for the Portland, Oregon area. Their project is in the preliminary stages, but has...

Aaron Royston and Omar Haroun placed second in New York City’s Big Apps 2.0 Competition with Sportaneous, an app enabling New Yorkers to locate nearby public facilities for playing sports and...

As a mother who was new to San Francisco, Jill Seman created MomMaps to alleviate her frustration trying to find locations in the city where she could take her kids. Now serving several cities,...

Conor White Sullivan, an anthropology major at the University of Massachusetts, in 2008 founded Localocracy, with a belief that technology can change democracy. The website is an online town forum...

David Van Sickle is the co-founder and CEO of Reciprocal Labs, a company based out of Madison, Wisconsin, dedicated to developing new tools for public health and research, like Asthmapolis....

Omar Haroun and Aaron Royston placed second in New York City’s Big Apps 2.0 Competition with Sportaneous, an app enabling New Yorkers to locate nearby public facilities for playing sports and...