CALinnovates hosted the Accelerating Innovation in the Clean Energy Economy event at UCLA featuring CALinnovates Advisory Board Member Nick Allen (Spring Ventures), Department of Energy Chief of Staff Brandon Hurlbut and Colonel Mike Naylor (U.S. Marine Corps). Continue reading “Accelerating Innovation in the Clean Energy Economy”
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The Amazing, Spectrum-Crunching Mobile-Palooza!
A demo and discussion presented by SFNewTech and CalInnovates
Innovating Access to Government Services
Phil Ginsburg, the General Manager of San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department, discusses how technology can benefit citizens and how public/private partnerships can help increase jobs and create revenue. He also provides some insight as to who might win the next World Series.
Desperately Seeking Spectrum
Consumer and Business members of CALinnovates were treated to a panel discussion featuring Chairman Julius Genachowski, CALinnovates Board Member Ron Conway, Andreessen-Horowitz VC Jeff Jordan, Twilio’s Jeff Lawson, Lookout’s John Hering and foursquare’s Holger Luedorf in San Francisco at the Founders Den. The panel, moderated by CALinnovates Executive Director Mike Montgomery, addressed the need to unleash spectrum in order to stimulate the economy, create jobs, speed up our networks, and support innovation at every level.
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Increase Broadband and Unleash Spectrum for Economic Benefit
As a Managing Partner of Compass Lexecon and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, Jon Orszag is an expert on the economic and inherent benefits of increased access to broadband and spectrum for consumers and economic growth.
Spectrum Crunch
The FCC created an infographic that details the challenges and the opportunities facing the mobile and wireless industry.
Interested in what this means for consumers, job creation and data usage? Click HERE.
Mobile Broadband Expansion Means Jobs Growth, Experts Say
By Matt Hamblen | Computerworld
Expanding mobile broadband services in the U.S. in the coming years would produce thousands of new jobs and help reverse today’s downward employment trend, a group of economic development and business officials said Wednesday.
“As mobile broadband is built out, you are likely to see jobs created,” said Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist for the Progressive Policy Institute during a conference call sponsored by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA).
Connect people to health by increasing access to technology
By Kweisi Mfume
5:32 p.m. EDT, August 15, 2011
When we think of the technological advances of the past 20 years, one in particular will probably come to mind for most Americans: wireless technology, which now enables us to access the Internet from anywhere. But when most Americans think of the top uses for the wireless Internet, health care is probably not the first thing on that list. Perhaps, in the near future, it will be.
Access to Technology & Broadband
“105 families in California add a broadband connection every hour”
The term “broadband” refers to the high-speed internet service which allows users to access a large volume of data very quickly. Think of it like a highway: the more lanes there are, the more traffic that can pass through efficiently. For instance, a very narrow road (or single-band signal) only has the capacity for light traffic, or Morse Code, for instance. Larger bandwidth can handle more types of data – such as telephone communication or music on the radio. A broadband “highway” has the capacity to move more complex and larger data vehicles very rapidly.
What is the Cleanweb and how is it good for the environment and consumers?
By Sunil Paul
“CleanWeb” is a category of clean technology that leverages the capability of the internet, social media, and mobile technologies to address resource constraints. Its the next stage of development for cleantech. We’re big fans of the Cleanweb at Spring Ventures.
The whole idea of “cleantech” is applying innovation to the problems of limited clean water, limited clean air, and limited physical space. For the last decade, the solutions we developed mostly drafted off knowledge from semiconductors and biothechnology — cleaner electricity, cleaner fuels, and better efficiency materials and storage. Today, information technology exponentially more power, is mobile, and has an embedded trust model of social networks. Its a layer of infrastructure to allow a transformation of how we use energy, resources, food, water, and land.