White House Receives Flood Of Innovation Fellow Applications After Its Disrupt Announcement

Disrupt isn't just a great launch platform for startups. Earlier this week at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, President Obama's senior technology advisor, Todd Park and U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel announced five new federal initiatives to get entrepreneurs and other innovators to work on the White House's new digital road map for open government. Within the 24 hours after the announcement at Disrupt on Wednesday, Park told O'Reilly's Alexander B. Howard earlier today, the White House received 600 applications to be a Presidential Innovation Fellow and "another several hundred people had expressed interest in following and engaging in the five projects in some other capacity."

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