13th Annual Technology Policy Exhibition Demonstrators
Overview | Demonstrators | Conference
Accenture
Alzheimer's Association Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone is a new Web-based location management service that gives people with Alzheimer's disease more freedom and independence while providing families some peace of mind. Comfort Zone is the first location management system designed specifically with people with Alzheimer's in mind by combining the latest in technology with flexibility. It combines the use of tracking devices and technology to allow family members to know where their loved ones are at all times and sends them alerts if the loved one moves out of the "comfort zone".
AT&T
Qme!.gov
QMe!.gov is a smart mobile phone application that is a one-stop shop for all government related questions. Questions could range from healthcare to education to voting. Using either text or voice recognition technology consumers can search for precise answers to short questions and get responses instantly and automatically. The application uses a continuously evolving large warehouse of frequently-asked question/answer pairs, and applies AT&T's state-of-the-art large-vocabulary speaker-independent voice recognition and natural language technologies. QMe!.gov will drastically simplify the way people communicate with the government.
Change Agent Productions
Neighborhood Technology Learning Continuum
Change Agent Productions, part of the YMCA of Greater Long Beach, is a social enterprise made up of digital media artists who work alongside inner-city youth to carry out professional video productions, graphic design projects and digital media trainings for diverse clientele. We provide job opportunities, youth workforce development skills, and high-end technology and creative class skills in our most challenging, low-income communities. Part of the demonstration will consist of a screening of Beyond Expectations, a short documentary produced by Change Agent Productions youth. It details the challenges youth face today and how out-of-school technology programs have helped them develop 21st Century Skills necessary in today's world. This video can be viewed at the home page of the client's web site - http://www.temescalassociates.com/. The demo will also showcase other projects that our youth have produced for clients, including animations, promotional videos, magazines, web sites, and graphic designs as well as a description of the 21st Century Skills utilized during production. These projects can be viewed at http://changeagentproductions.org/.
Comcast
On Demand Online
Comcast will display its recently launched On Demand Online service. The On Demand Online demonstration will show how customers can now access television content using online technology.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Schools
This demo will highlight the new online games, videos and other resources of our free Common Sense Schools program, which provides schools with tools to run digital literacy and media education programs. Nearly 5,000 schools nationwide have registered for the parent and teacher education program in the first year. Building on that foundation, we are launching a school-based curriculum designed to instruct K-12 students (starting with middle school children) in the essentials of smart, safe media usage. Through online games, videos, and other resources, "Digital Literacy: Citizenship in a Connected Culture" will empower young people to be responsible and respectful as they navigate the digital world. We are currently piloting the digital literacy and citizenship curriculum in 14 public, private and parochial schools in Omaha, Nebraska and the San Francisco Bay Area. We will continue evaluating and revising the curriculum over the summer for a national launch in September 2010.
EcoFactor, Inc.
Automated Management of Residential Heating and Cooling
EcoFactor will demonstrate its automated system for managing residential heating and cooling systems. The demonstration will show how EcoFactor is able to reduce heating and cooling costs by 20-40% with no sacrifice in comfort or convenience. We will also show the ability to shift energy consumption from peak load periods without inconveniencing occupants. The EcoFactor solution utilizes a software as a service (cloud based) platform to optimize home heating and cooling. Connecting to a two way communicating thermostat via any wireless technology, the system analyzes the characteristics of the home and its occupants. Based on the unique characteristics of each home, EcoFactor provides ongoing instructions to the thermostat to deliver heating and cooling programs optimized for the occupant preferences and external weather conditions. The demonstration will show these capabilities.
Entertainment Software Association
This year at the Annual ICAC Tech Exhibition, the Entertainment Software Association, the U.S. association exclusively dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies that publish video and computer games for video game consoles, personal computers, and the Internet, will be showcasing the industry's latest products. Included will be the latest innovations highlighting digital distribution, cutting edge technology, and the power of high-end processors in today's game consoles.
ESRI and Connected Nation
Interactive Broadband Coverage Maps: Tools for stimulus tracking, consumer information, and economic development
Expanding broadband coverage and service adoption rates is a top policy priority for local, state and federal government due to its influence on economic development. ESRI will demonstrate its server based GIS (Geographic Information System) technology to create interactive broadband coverage maps. Connected Tennessee and Connect Ohio will demonstrate their online mapping solution, BroadbandStat, that was created by Connected Nation to display available service providers at the address level. By displaying served and unserved areas in relation to demographic and market data, broadband and computer adoption rates and barriers to adoption, the internet accessible map represents a union of traditional broadband availability mapping with detailed research into consumer technology trends.. Consumers, government officials, and local leaders can search by address for a list of broadband providers and provide instant feedback on the accuracy of the map. It is also possible to learn about community programs for digital literacy and broadband awareness, assess the impact of proposed broadband projects and track broadband growth.
Federal Trade Commission
OnGuard Online
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help people spot, stop, and avoid fraud. The FTC manages OnGuardOnline.gov, a partnership of more than a dozen federal agencies and the technology industry. OnGuardOnline.gov provides practical, plain-language information that you can use to help your constituents be on guard against Internet fraud, secure their computers, and protect their personal information. The comprehensive OnGuardOnline.gov website also offers games and videos that you can "grab" for use on your own website, information on ordering free OnGuardOnline.gov brochures and bookmarks, and suggestions for spreading the word about safe computing. A recent addition to the site is Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online. This free online safety guide tells parents and teachers what they need to know to talk to kids about issues like cyberbullying, sexting, mobile phone safety, and protecting the family computer.
Fujitsu America
MedSecure Patient Kiosk
This year, Fujitsu will demonstrate the MedSecure Patient Kiosk of Fujitsu America, and how by working with our technology and healthcare software and services partners, we are applying the kiosks and Fujitsu PalmSecure ™ palm vein biometric authentication technology to the adoption of Electronic Health Records. Building on the success of a 9-county pilot operational program in central Illinois, the kiosks are currently deployed in production at several major medical groups, including the George Washington University Medical Center, which has deployed over 20 units. The patient kiosks use Fujitsu PalmSecure ™ palm vein biometric authentication technology to verify patient identity, speed-up check-ins, update patient records, make co-payments and improve patient satisfaction in an easy-to-use, private manner.
Exhibition guests will be able to use several MedSecure kiosks to model the experience of enrollment and check-in. Since 1996 Fujitsu has demonstrated our biometric technologies to the Internet Caucus. Prior years have focused on the promise of PalmVein biometrics and their future application. This year, we are eager to demonstrate a real-world application of PalmSecure to the goals of better health care, patient privacy, electronic health records, and health information exchanges.
GetGameSmart
The Get Game Smart Campaign is a new approach to helping parents and their children get on the same page about making smart media choices.
Using new methods and real parents and teens as messengers, the Campaign inspires families to take simple, but important steps that can help ensure that their kids' media experiences are safer, healthy and more balanced.
The Get Game Smart Family Challenge incentivizes parents and kids to work together on fun activities that will improve their knowledge about gaming and online safety, and help them create household agreements for media use ...along with easy ways to enforce them!
GetGameSmart.com provides tips and information from the nation's leading experts and organizations and gives parents the information and resources they need to manage media in their homes.
Google
Google PowerMeter
Google PowerMeter is a free electricity usage monitoring tool that provides you with information on how much energy your home is consuming. PowerMeter receives information from utility smart meters and in-home energy management devices and visualizes this information for you on iGoogle (your personalized Google homepage). Studies show that being able to see your electricity usage in near real time, throughout the day, makes it easier to reduce it and save money. This sort of feedback requires either an advanced electricity meter, a "smart meter," or a consumer-owned electricity management device, and many of today's smart meters don't display information to the consumer. Consumers should have access to data on their personal electricity use, control who gets to see this data and choose from a range of services to help them understand and benefit from this data. We hope that consumers will soon be empowered with an entire ecosystem of energy information products and services. Learn more about PowerMeter at www.google.org/powermeter/.
Jitterbug, Created by GreatCall, Inc.
Jitterbug: The easy to use cell phone experience (Health & Wellness applications)
Jitterbug is an easy to use cell phone service that is designed for the Simplicity Seeker at any age. This phone works very well for individuals that have visual, hearing, mobility, and cognitive disabilities as well (feel free to browse our website at jitterbug.com). The company offers additional services that are designed to reduce Health Care costs by keeping individuals in better touch with the care providers and health & wellness professionals. Jitterbug will demonstrate the following service offerings:
- LiveNurse Enables Jitterbug users to contact a live, registered nurse 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Wellness Calls Consist of a 5-minute phone call from world-renowned wellness expert, Dr. Alman, PhD that is sent to the Jitterbug user's phone 2 times per week, and provides advice on how to deal with stress and improve overall health and mental wellness.
- Medication Reminder Calls, and Diabetes Management These new health and wellness Jitterbug services will be formally announced and offered in 2010. This demo would be one of the first public demonstrations of the services.
- Jitterbug Personal Emergency Management Service Jitterbug staff can also discuss this service that enables customers at the touch of a button to be connected to their own personal emergency operator that knows who they are, their medical background, and to conference in friends or family, or dispatch 911 if necessary.
Except for the personal emergency management service, ALL of these features and the design of the phone can be demonstrated to attendees on the Jitterbug phone. We will have several Jitterbug phones on site for the attendees to use the health and wellness services described above. A PowerPoint demo about the Jitterbug phone and its services and one-page hand out will also be made available to attendees.
Lockheed Martin
IronClad
Today's mobile workforce has two top concerns: cyber security and portability. Lockheed Martin's innovative solution for the employee on the go, IronClad™, is a totally secure "PC on a stick" that allows you to house your operating system, applications, and data on a secure, trusted, self-contained USB flash drive. IronClad shrinks your laptop hard drive to a three-inch flash drive, portable and small enough to fit in your pocket. Plug IronClad into virtually any laptop or PC, and IronClad will bypass the computer's hard drive and run your operating system and applications directly off the flash drive. This gives you the convenience of your desktop, either stand alone or networked, with no risk of your sensitive data ever touching the hard drive of the computer you're using. IronClad is secure enough to use at computer kiosks, shared laptops, or public workstations. This demonstration will show IronClad running from a standalone laptop and how it functions just like your desktop.
Microsoft
USFederal360 Solution Using Surface
Microsoft Corporation Microsoft is demonstrating USFederal360 -- a combination of technologies that, used in conjunction with Microsoft's multi-touch Surface platform, can help agencies and Capitol Hill offices manage business process workflow, track constituent relationships and correspondence, gather business intelligence, and leverage the efficiencies of unified communications, document management, social networking, geospatial analysis, data publishing, and citizen web portals. More information available at www.usfederal360.com
Motorola, Inc.
Droid
DROID by Motorola delivers a rich consumer experience with warp-speed Web browsing, a mammoth screen, and Motorola's expertise in design and voice quality. It is a smartphone that doesn't compromise.
DROID by Motorola comes equipped with Google Maps™, GPS, and can be customized with thousands of applications and hundreds of widgets available on the Android Market™. Toggle back and forth between up to six applications at a time to juggle the universe and your apps. Perform Google Search™ at the speed of sound: simply tell DROID what you're looking for using voice-activated search, and it will serve up Google search results based on your location.
DROID by Motorola has a solid exterior, intelligent interior and is one of the thinnest full-QWERTY slider phones available. It is a no-fuss, high-tech, location-aware, voice-recognizing, over-the-air updating, multi-tasking machine. With DROID by Motorola, you can: zip through the Web, access the Internet at 3G speeds via the Verizon network or from any Wi-Fi hotspot. The multi-window HTML browser with a massive processor delivers the Web the way consumers expect.
Accessing the Internet via smartphones continues to grow every year, putting increasing demand on both the wireless and wireline networks of cellular and broadband operators and driving the move to 4G networks. To handle this continuing surge in Internet use and traffic on their networks operators will need more spectrum allocated to handle this increased demand.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
NetSmartz411
NetSmartz411 is a premier helpdesk and hotline for answering your questions about Internet safety, computers, and the Web. Parents, guardians, grandparents, teachers - any concerned adults - are welcome to use NetSmartz411 to better understand the opportunities and challenges children may face online. At NetSmartz411.org, you can find answers to your questions about the online world! View the library for information ranging from social networking, instant messaging, cell phones, chatrooms, e-mail, and gaming. You will learn the potential risks to children and how to protect them. New Internet safety issues are addressed as they emerge so you will be getting the most current information available to help you protect this highly connected generation of children and teens.
Nokia
Nokia Accessibility
Nokia has a rich history of transforming the freedom of wireless communications, and we are working to bring this wireless world to everyone, including our customers with disabilities, whether in regards to vision, hearing, speech, mobility, cognition or age. Technology on display will include the Nokia Wireless Loopset LPS-5 for telecoil-equipped hearing aid wearers; Nokia N82 with knfbReader for customers who are blind or need cognitive assistance; and, a range of wireless devices that include pre-installed features for accessibility. www.nokiaaccessibility.com.
Points of Light Institute
HandsOn Network and Causes present Volunteer with Facebook
Our Volunteer with Facebook application (http://volunteer.causes.com) is a virtual volunteer center that uses Facebook to connect citizens to community service. Our demo is live on Facebook today in 2 metro areas, and will roll out nationally in 2010.
Reputation Defender, Inc.
MyReputation & MyPrivacy
MyReputation scours the public and deep Internet to report on your complete online identity & reputation. It helps monitor and control personal content online and can attempt to destroy harmful or mis-information. It is the only reputation awareness tool on the market that offers a solution to harmful information published on the Web. We have built, and can demonstrate, the technology necessary to seek out and analyze personal content online. MyPrivacy, the "Global Do Not Call List," offers the 157 million Do Not Call Registrants a new, comprehensive solution to protecting their privacy: MyPrivacy controls cyber-stalking and direct marketing by searching for and removing personal contact data from the 200+ public people-search databases that expose personal contact information on the Web. We can quickly demonstrate to individuals their extensive online exposure of personally identifiable information, and allow them to take action on it immediately.
Skoodat
Tools for Teachers: Real-time Information to Transform Results
Skoodat will demonstrate a set of integrated, innovative tools for teachers in a standard browser interface, supported by a cloud platform of incredible computing power. We call these tools "apps." These apps share a single, unduplicated set of data that enable schools to: efficiently manage longitudinal data, report to local, state and federal agencies in real-time, and dramatically reduce costs. This demo will illustrate how Skoodat's apps: measure, track, and analyze student performance for use by administrators, teachers, students and parents. Skoodat Foundation apps provide all the basic functions educators need to manage day-to-day activities and foster and sustain learning growth. With Skoodat apps, the future is now. Now any school, district or state can make a giant leap forward into authentic cloud computing, where plug-and-play applications are seamlessly integrated in a massively scalable, massively customizable platform, built on a world-class infrastructure.
Sony
Sony Reader - Daily Edition
Experience the freedom to wirelessly browse, purchase and download books from The eBook Store from Sony with free 3G wireless access11. Measuring just 0.6" thin8 and weighing only 12.75 ounces, the Reader Daily Edition™ also features a 7" paper-like display and touch screen navigation. Carry hundreds of books at a time and enjoy your content in either portrait or landscape viewing modes. Plus, the Reader supports multiple formats including ePub and PDF while giving you access to over one million free public domain titles from Google Books.
TRUSTe
Behavioral Advertising Notice Program
TRUSTe's Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA) Notice Program offers online advertising publishers a compliance solution for online advertising publishers based on the FTC's OBA Guidelines through technology that allows consumers to opt-out of behavioral advertising and retargeting. The technology component begins with a new TRUSTe OBA icon to be inserted on the publisher's web page where OBA or retargeting takes place. Clicking this icon triggers the following TRUSTe-hosted pop up windows: Short Privacy Notice, Opt-Out tool, Learn More, Leave Feedback, Email Reminder, and File a Complaint. These windows are implemented through a widget application. On the back end, we host the opt-out system, serve disclosures and analyze user interaction. Specifically, the opt-out system:
- Installs relevant opt-out cookies to the consumer's browser
- Keeps track of opt-out choices
- Identifies ad delivery partners/networks for each publisher
- Allows consumer to uninstall specific ad network opt-out cookies
- Sends periodic reminder emails to consumers to maintain their opt-out choices
- Delivers a plug-in that offers a persistent opt-out for consumers with Firefox
Verizon Wireless
Verizon Safeguards
Verizon Family Locator is one of several tools in the Verizon Safeguards suite of products that helps Verizon Wireless customers manage the wireless phones and phone usage on their accounts. The Verizon Safeguards hands-on demonstration will feature: - Safeguard against cyberbullying with Call & Message Blocking - Receive Arrival & Departure Updates when a latchkey child enters or leaves school and home - Safeguard against sexting with time of day restrictions and video and picture message service blocks - Apply age-appropriate content filters to control web, text message programs, videos, music and game content - Visit Verizon's parental control education website at http://www.parentalcontrolcenter.com where Verizon helps parents manage and create the digital experience that's just right for their family.
Virginia Tech University
The Virginia Tech Lumenhaus
A environmentally sustainable, energy efficient, solar powered house which uses smart technology controls to to manage energy and control the interior environment of the house as energy efficiently as possible. An iphone is the interface to the web based control giving the user a simple and user friendly way to operate everything in the house that uses energy, from music to lighting to temperature and humidity control. The demonstration will be given as a "keynote" multimedia presentation which will include drawings, photographs and videos that demonstrate the built technology of the house.
Yahoo!, Inc.
Privacy Tools
Yahoo! will demonstrate new technology tools that bring information and control to users where and when it is most relevant. Ad Interest Manager gives Yahoo! users a view of the categories of interest Yahoo! has put them in based on their online activity, and the ability to turn off the categories, or to opt-out all together from interest-based advertising. CLEAR Ad Notice allows users to click on a "universal" symbol or ad marker that will present the user with information about the advertiser, ad delivery company, customization company and choices about opting out of interest-based advertising from in or around internet display ads.