President Obama Makes the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program Permanent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5UFV8d364
"It is in the national interest for the Federal Government to attract the brightest minds skilled in technology or innovative practices to serve in the Federal Government to work on some of the Nation's biggest and most pressing challenges."
https://medium.com/@WhiteHouse/meet-the-presidential-innovation-fellows-194dec20442b
Meet the Presidential Innovation Fellows
(And Learn Why President Obama Just Made This Program Permanent)
Today, with an Executive Order, President Obama made the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program a permanent part of the Federal government going forward. The program brings entrepreneurs, executives, technologists, designers and other innovators into government, and teams them up with Federal employees to improve programs that serve more than 150 million Americans.
Since the launch of the program in 2012, 96 top innovators have been recruited into this highly-competitive program from across the country, including places like: Silicon Valley, New York, Austin, Washington, D.C. and Boston.
The program is on the lookout for more talented innovators and technologists to join the team and work on our Nation’s most pressing challenges. Fellows serve for 12 months as embedded entrepreneurs-in-residence, working quickly and iteratively to turn promising ideas into game-changing solutions.