12th Annual Technology Policy Exhibition Demonstrators
Overview | Demonstrators | Conference
Accenture
The demonstration will show how patient data is made available to clinicians at the point of care through the seamless exchange of health records between multiple locations and disparate systems using an electronic health record (EHR) system. The demonstration will also show how a personal health record (PHR) can help patients take an active part in the management of their care. This patient centric focus enables patients to control who can access their health data and what type of data can be viewed by individuals or groups. Using a PHR, the patients can electronically transfer registration and medication data to the providers of care. Accenture's demo will show that the health data exchanged is syntactically and semantically normalized to produce a true longitudinal health record.
Arlington, VA Public Schools
CanDo is an open-source, web-based competency tracking system written by the staff and students of Arlington Public Schools, in conjunction with a team of professional developers. CanDo is one module of an open-source student information system, called SchoolTool, which includes provisions for calendaring, grading, student demographics and attendance. CanDo is being used by all 75 Career & Technical Education instructors in Arlington Public Schools, and in the spring of 2009 is being piloted in all eight superintendent regions in the Commonwealth of Virginia. SchoolTool is supported by Internet entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. CanDo is supported by Arlington Public School, the Virginia Department of Education's Office of Career & Technical Education and the Center for Innovative Communities. Funding open source software projects like CanDo and SchoolTool provides solutions to educational information problems that are effective, flexible and scalable.
Avaya
Hurricane Katrina left more than 30 communities along the gulf coast unable to process 911 calls for help from their citizens because the Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP) were rendered inoperable. Avaya in partnership with several industry leading companies has created a mobile portable Public Safety Answering Point that allows 911 call takers to relocate away from threatened geographies yet maintain the ability to receive and react to emergency calls. This capability was put successfully to the test recently in Houston as Hurricane Ike devastated parts of that community. Please come visit our booth for an explanation and demo of how next generation 911 capabilities can be used to avoid repeat of past tragedies.
ClearPlay, Inc.
ClearPlay has developed the next generation of parental controls to open a new world of choice to parents and children. ClearPlay's advance parental filtering technology is the first to utilize the new attributes of digital media and the power of the Internet to enable families to customize their viewing of regular movies or TV shows watched via DVD, VOD or any other digital medium. Independent of any participation from either content producers or government, ClearPlay's parental controls can actually provide hundreds of viewing options for a single movie - rather than simply blocking movies or shows based on vague rating systems. This new filtering technology automatically skips or mutes specific content during the playback of regular movies or TV shows according to individual viewing preferences. Consumers can now customize their playback settings, choosing personal filtering levels within various content categories according to their own comfort levels. ClearPlay's new technology fits very well with the objectives of the recently passed Child Safe Viewing Act (S. 602).
Comcast
Ultra-high speed broadband is becoming a reality at Comcast. The Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications) demonstrates high data service speeds in excess of 100 Mbps. These speeds will be compared to the conventional 1.5 Mbps seen on DSL service and the 6 Mbps offered by many cable companies. The mechanics of this demo involves several PC's connected to cable modems. One cable modem will be capped to run at 1.5Mbps, the other, over 100Mbps. In the demo, a user will request a file download from each computer, and the DSL-speed modem will show substantial wait time, while the DOCSIS 3.0 modem will download the file in seconds and start playing. For example, this will show that an HD movie can be downloaded in under 3 minutes with DOCSIS, whereas with 6mbps, it would take approximately 67 minutes and with 1.5mbps, it would take over 4 hours.
Commonwealth of Virginia
Now more than ever before, broadband telecommunications services are essential to fostering economic growth, civic participation, health care access, education, public safety and other services.
There are a variety of factors including challenging topography, low population densities, and restrictive laws, ordinances and regulations that can combine to create an unfavorable deployment environment for traditionally modeled private investment. To address the issue of broadband coverage gaps, Governor Kaine challenged the Commonwealth of Virginia's Broadband Roundtable to:
- Provide localities interested in facilitating the delivery of broadband access to constituents with a resource to accelerate implementation
- Remain focused on three principles - long-term sustainability, public-private partnership, and community-driven strategy.
DocuSign
U.S. businesses mail or ship approximately 6 million documents for signature every day. DocuSign is the leading provider of on-demand software services for electronic signature and online contract execution, empowering individuals and businesses to operate faster, dramatically reduce negative environmental impacts, increase efficiency and profitability while offering enhanced security to reduce fraud.
DocuSign will demonstrate how a multi-party contract can be executed within seconds, securely and simply online from locations around the world. We will share how the sender of the document may control the sequence and routing to signers and the tools used to identify and authenticate signers from diverse locations; and we will show how signers are guided through the simple and unintimidating process of signing electronically.
DocuSign is the only Web-based service to fully automate the entire contract execution process. To date, more than 19 million signature events have been executed using DocuSign.
Entertainment Software Association
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is 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. U.S. computer and video game software sales grew six percent in 2007 to $9.5 billion - more than tripling industry software sales since 1996. To learn more about the ESA's policy priorities - from broadband expansion and intellectual property protection to media and technology convergence visit - www.TheESA.com
Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission, 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 consumers spot, stop, and avoid fraud. The FTC and the technology industry have teamed up to develop OnGuardOnline.gov, preparing straightforward, plain-language materials that you can use to help inform your constituents on how to be on guard against Internet fraud, secure their computers, and protect their personal information. The comprehensive OnGuardOnline.gov Web site has tips, articles, videos, and interactive activities, and the site now lets you grab games and videos to embed on your own Web site. From OnGuardOnline, you can order free brochures or bookmarks from the FTC. Also on that site, you can review some ideas on how to help spread awareness about safe computing.
Fujitsu
Ensuring Security, Reliability and Sustainability Of Internet and Its Services Through Technology and Innovations
Fujitsu will demonstrate market-ready technologies and devices using biometric security, compact design, energy efficiency, and IT solutions intended to ensure a high degree of security and reliability for Internet services while lessening environmental impact of Internet users. Palm Vein recognition capitalizes on the special features of the veins, providing a unique identifier for authentication and security. Computrace helps IT managers monitor mobile assets, allowing the ability to track down their physical location for recovery. Energy Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Computers and Devices are used in the datacenter and by individual users. Electronic paper is an environmentally friendly, renewable and lightweight technology that uses ultra-thin film substrates to create a re-writable electronic paper. Fujitsu's demonstration reinforces the message that IT technologies and market innovation can play a crucial role in meeting Internet and related environmental challenges.
GetGameSmart
Microsoft, with more than a dozen prominent children's advocacy organizations and retailer Best Buy, launched an extensive, first-of-its-kind public service outreach effort: GetGameSmart. The new campaign encourages and helps families establish healthy habits for playing video games, watching TV and browsing the web.
GetGameSmart will inspire families to take simple steps to help kids use media, from any manufacturer, in safe, healthy and balanced ways. It encourages participation with a variety of family contests and prizes including hardware, gift cards, free trips and peer recognition awards.
Microsoft has a longstanding commitment to empowering parents with tools to appropriately manage their family's digital life. The company builds powerful parental controls into Microsoft Xbox 360 consoles and Windows Vista computing, allowing families to set limits on what and how long kids can play, watch or access digital or online media.
Details of the new campaign are at www.GetGameSmart.com.
Google
The state of Alabama Department of Homeland Security (ALDHS) has built a statewide common operating picture using Google technology. Known as "Virtual Alabama," this program provides the state with a secure, affordable, internet-based information-sharing platform for critical infrastructure, homeland security and emergency preparedness information. The central goal of Virtual Alabama is to ensure "the right people have the right information at the right time." Virtual Alabama uses Google Earth Enterprise -- the secure version of Google Earth -- to build what ALDHS calls a "bridge of communication between emergency responders."
Virtual Alabama leverages the rich visualization capabilities of Google Earth to improve situational awareness, map critical infrastructure, identify assets and vulnerabilities, and visualize risk. Since the introduction of Virtual Alabama, the state has found many more uses for the program including areas like agriculture, economic development, and education. More information about Virtual Alabama can be found at http://earth.google.com/enterprise/virtual_alabama.html.
IiStrategyLabs
On September 11th, 2008 Vivek Kundra, asked iStrategyLabs how we could make their revolutionary Data Catalog useful for the citizens, visitors, businesses and government agencies of DC. The Data Catalog contains all manner of open public data featuring real-time crime feeds, school test scores, poverty indicators and more.
We knew that the old way of spending millions of taxpayer dollars with big, slow contractors was a broken model in need of fixing. Our answer was to hold an innovation contest where we put the data in the hands of the people, and give them cash prizes and recognition for their efforts. We therefore created Apps for Democracy - a contest that cost Washington DC $50,000 and returned 47 iPhone, Facebook and web applications with an estimated value in excess of $2,000,000.
Lockheed Martin
This next generation technology focuses on Space Situational Awareness and Operational Responsive Space. The demonstration showcases capabilities developed to:
- Visualize current/future state of a space constellation by displaying several satellites performing mission activities including imaging targets on the ground and communicating to relays and ground facilities.
- Rapidly respond to significant events such as a recent missile launch by dynamically re-tasking the next available satellite to image a new high priority area of interest.
Lookingglass
Lookingglass provides the IT industry's most reliable and intuitive cloud-to-core Network Map application. Rich visualization delivers unprecedented simplification of IP networks virtual configuration and geolocation empowering customers with real-time Global Cyber Situational Awareness.
Extensible data fusion and powerful analytics result in a flexible and scalable solution with a wide range of applications to include Intelligence, Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), and Information Security serving both government and commercial enterprise markets
McAfee
Sophisticated cyberthreats are proliferating from motivated individuals, criminal organizations, and even nation state actors. Proactive awareness of the electronic ecosystem in which one operates enables individuals, businesses, and Governments to take the necessary steps to further secure themselves. McAfee will be demonstrating Trusted Source, our cyber-security data intelligence capability. TrustedSource provides real-time trend analysis of the world's Internet traffic AND categorizes entities based on their current and past security behavior. Based on a footprint of thousands of security appliances operating in over 120 nations worldwide a reputational score is generated for every entity, analogous to a credit score. The cyber data gathered by TrustedSource is being used today in combination with other trending data such as geopolitical activity, to detect an increase in threats posed to Government systems, networks, and privately owned critical infrastructure (CI/KR). McAfee was founded in 1989 and is headquarted in Santa Clara, Ca.
Microsoft
Surface which is fully integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM - A Microsoft suite of modular, integrated applications and services that provide functionality for constituents and cases, request history tracking and analysis, automated incident management, and business activity and employee performance forecasting and measurement. Today's demo will show how a legislative operation might use CRM to manage constituent relationships, including phone, mail and email inquiries from them (this example will focus on foreclosures, gas prices, and crimes by zip code), as well as how CRM data might be plotted using Virtual Earth mapping service or accessed via Windows Mobile (and other mobile platforms). The demonstration provides geographically plotted real-time data from the district to help Senators and representatives stay abreast of trends and constituent concerns..
Motorola, Inc.
Partnering with Baycom Inc., the Green Bay Police Department has implemented Motorola's Canopy wireless network and video surveillance system for increased port security. This is the first application of its kind in Northeastern Wisconsin. Home to one of the nation's busiest international ports, Green Bay mounted cameras to transmit live video to police over the entire city - controllable from any computer with security clearance.
Focusing on minute details and acting as a force multiplier, the system offers Green Bay increased protection to monitor foreign vessels passing through, often on their first U.S. stop. The system allows for increased incident response through the sharing of live-feed data, ensuring that responders are briefed instantaneously.
Motorola will broadcast a live video feed from cameras operating within the wireless network. Additionally, the team will provide a demonstration of the security equipment (cameras, video data, capabilities, etc.) used in Green Bay.
NCMEC
NetSmartz411 is a premier, Internet safety helpdesk and hotline for answering your questions about Internet safety, computers, and the Web. Parents, guardians, grandparents, stepparents, teachers, and concerned adults are welcome to use NetSmartz411 to better understand the opportunities and challenges children face online.
At NetSmartz411.org, you can find answers to all your questions about the online world. View the library for information about topics ranging from social networking, instant messaging, cell phones, chatrooms, e-mail, and gaming. You will learn the potential risks to children and how to help protect them while using certain web sites or programs. New Internet safety issues are addressed, so you will have access to the most current information available to help you protect this Internet-connected generation of children and teens. If you can't find what you are looking for, use the "Ask an Expert" tab or call 1-888-NETS411 to ask a new question.
Nokia
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
NTT Communications
NTT America, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) and a Tier-1 global IP network services provider, will be highlighting an IPTV streaming video over IPv6 demonstration.
With more than a decade of experience with IPv6, NTT America's demonstration of an IPTV prototype attests to the long-term viability of migrating current and emerging applications to take advantage of IPv6. The company provides the Internet backbone, transit and infrastructure, and services that enable scalable implementations of leading edge products and solutions.
While demand for IPTV is increasing, the number of IPv4 addresses is decreasing. IPv6 solves the address crunch problem by offering a vastly expanded usable addresses space. IPv6 also offers a significant number of benefits for the development of new IP based applications, such as IPTV.
Open Source Digital Voting Foundation
TrustTheVote (TTV) is the flagship technology development project of the non-profit Open Source Digital Voting Foundation. The OSDV Foundation is designing and developing open source, open data, and open standards voting technology, from voter registration to ballot casting, counting, and elections management. All work is held in the public trust and freely available. The component to be demonstrated is a prototype of the Digital Voter Registration Service - a system that leverages the Internet to offer citizens a transparent, traceable, easy-to-use voter registration service. Voting technology is becoming critical democracy infrastructure. The digital voter registration service is an example of open source technology being developed and maintained in the public trust. Other work forthcoming includes ballot casting and counting systems, and election management tools. To learn more please visit www.osdv.org on the web.
Panasonic
Panasonic will demonstrate its VIERA CAST technology, first introduced in Panasonic's 2008 VIERA Plasma HDTVs, and now available in Panasonic's 2009 Blu-ray players. This Internet-enabled technology provides access to the select Internet sites without the need of either an external box or a PC. Consumers can enjoy the entertainment value provided by such sites as YouTube, Google's Picasa, and Bloomberg, and will have access to Amazon's VOD streaming video service in early 2009. There is no fee to use the VIERA CAST functionality.
Panasonic will also show interactive Internet applications supported by Blu-Ray disc players with BD-Live capability. BD-Live provides a way for content creators to offer a variety of Web-enabled features, enabling users to connect to the Internet to download images, subtitles and other data, and take part in interactive activities and multi-player games linked to bonus cinema content found on Blu-ray Discs.
Privo, Inc.
PrivoReg is a tool to help parents control online collection and use of their children's personal information. PrivoReg acts as the intermediary between families and commercial websites that limit access to their site or content by users' age. Families can associate children's age with personal identifiers, including email addresses and cell phone numbers. Member websites will then be able to limit children's access to their online properties, mobile content, or internet-based marketing. Privo will demonstrate the PrivoReg parent and child account registration process, creating a "Do Not Contact" profile for each registered child.
PrivoReg is both a secure tool for controlling the collection and use of children's personal information and a means by which commercial websites can protect their brand reputation and improve compliance with COPPA and their own policies.
PrivoReg is complementary to PrivoLock, the only infomediary solution certified by the FTC as a COPPA Safe Harbor.
Salesforce
Cloud computing allows Congressional offices to run their constituent operations on the Web. They can manage constituent relationships, handle correspondence, track contacts and issues, and monitor media. And they can do it using the same user-friendly interface that has made the consumer Web so popular. Because cloud computing applications run in an off-site Internet data center and are accessed via a web-browser, they can be implemented in a matter of weeks without having to purchase any software or hardware. Instead, offices simply pay a monthly fee according to the number of users. Given these advantages, it is no wonder that cloud computing is projected to account for 25% of all software sales in three years. Unfortunately, Congressional rules have been interpreted to prevent Members from taking advantage of cloud computing to manage their constituent relationships. This policy interpretation should be reconsidered so that Congress, like consumers and businesses, can take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing.
Symantec Corporation
Cyber attacks from both criminal elements and nation states threaten the fabric of America. Symantec solutions provide the ability to proactively identify cyber threats and build a trustworthy and accountable cyber infrastructure that is resilient, protects America's competitive advantage, and advances our national and homeland security interests.
Symantec, the 4th largest software company in the world, enables and simplifies collaboration among Symantec and Third-party products. The Collaboration model is aimed at data/information sharing among multiple products, allowing task & operational control of one product to be initiated by another product and creating loosely integrated process automation solutions for IT domain specific processes. The ability to leverage existing product deployments by extracting correlated information as well as automate IT processes across participating products more effectively and rapidly, not only provides greater functional and operational capabilities, but also contributes to greater costs effectiveness and risk management for the enterprise as a whole.
TechGuard
The PoliWall is a network security appliance that allows the filtering of Internet traffic by country of origin. The demonstration will feature the PoliWall in a network environment with live data being sent through it. Graphs showing the traffic flow through the PoliWall will be shown for the user to examine. The user will be able to launch mock cyber-attacks from China, and then use the PoliWall to block the attack with one click of the mouse. The user will then see the resulting graph, which will have all attacking traffic stopped by the PoliWall and the US and coalition partners traffic still going through the device.
University of Georgia Libraries
The Digital Library of Georgia will demonstrate the Civil Rights Digital Library, a Web-based portal documenting the struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s, one of the most far-reaching social movements in the nation's history. CRDL, a partnership among librarians, technologists, educators, academic publishers, and public broadcasters that is supported through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement. Users discover primary sources and other educational materials from 100 libraries, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale. Unedited news film from two Georgia television stations held by the Brown Media Archives at the UGA Libraries forms the centerpiece of the online collection. The portal also provides educator resources and contextual materials, such as Freedom on Film's stories and discussion questions about the Movement in Georgia and the New Georgia Encyclopedia's online articles and multimedia.
Verizon
Verizon offers a Parental Controls Program with free online tools that work online, on cell phones and on TV to help make our customers' experience using our broadband services more enjoyable and give parents tools that they can use to customize the services to their preferences.
Verizon Wireless offers parents free Content Filters and even more extensive options including Usage Controls, Chaperone with Family Locator for their children's wireless devices. By using Content Filters, parents may allow their children to access content available through their handsets, including content accessible through Mobile Web 2.0, short code-based messaging campaigns, V CAST Music and V CAST Video, with confidence that the content will be age-appropriate. Only Verizon Wireless offers age-appropriate content filters, which are easy to change as your child matures, and always free of charge. To learn more, please visit: vzw.com/parentalcontrols.
Vobile, Inc.
Vobile Inc, a leading provider of content identification and management solutions, will demonstrate two solutions based on its VideoDNA technology. These solutions demonstrate the feasibility of using automated content recognition technology for large-scale copyright enforcement applications.
VideoTracker for Content Owners - a Software as a Service (SaaS) application that allows content owners to track and manage content quickly, accurately, across a variety of online channels, anywhere on the internet. An intuitive web-based interface supports tracking and enforcement workflows used by major content owners..
MediaWise for Publishers - a fully automated system that can be used by UGC sites, and any online content distributors to quickly and accurately identify user-uploaded content which increases the premium advertising inventory and reduces the operational and legal costs of distributing unauthorized copyrighted content..
Vobile, Inc. is privately held, with investments from AT&T, Steamboat Ventures. Vobile customers include major content owners and UGC sites worldwide.
VoiceLEVER - Medical, USA
VoiceLever will preview and demonstrate its on-body conversational computing/communicator that recognizes speech, speaks back, and displays vivid full color pictures/maps on your wrist. Worn like a wristwatch, speech via a wireless headset inputs data and commands. Connected wirelessly to cellphones or laptops Voicelever networks to the Internet and the voice net: say a name to make a voice call or see a photograph on your wrist. A touch screen and embedded vibrator/accelerometer allows silent operation, giving developers advanced operational capabilities. VoiceLever's Healthcare use scenarios illustrate how Conversay speech - mobile, un-tethered, and on-body - leads to efficiencies over keyboard/"sit-down" interfaces to create/reach electronic medical records, enter vitals, and retrieve patient data on-to-go - ID photos, allergies, medications - to improve patient identification/reduce errors. For multitasking professionals - nurses, doctors, security personnel, first responders - VoiceLever promises hands-free computing and communications to support critical tasks and bring the Internet by voice command.
World Wide Notary
WWN will demonstrate DigaSign, an Internet service to securely apply electronic signatures and professional seals (notary, geologist, engineer etc.) to electronic documents. DigaSign takes Window's based documents, PDF or TIFF files and posts them to WWN's secure servers for processing.
We will simulate the esigning and enotarization of mortgage documents from multiple people from multiple locations. We will utilize DigaSign's disconnected signing feature that allows documents to be securely downloaded to a laptop and signed in a remote location and synchronized back to the WWN servers once Internet access is available.
With DigaSign's support utility, we will demonstrate the complete control and audit over a user's access to the system that makes DigaSign perfect for licensure governing bodies to grant or limit access to commissioned users (notaries, engineers etc.). DigaSign can expedite document processing services needed by federal, state and local governments, military, and a multitude of various industries.
Xerox
The demonstration will feature a wireless multifunction imaging device that prints with solid ink, an alternative to the traditional laser ink or ink jet technology. Unlike other technologies that rely on the manufacture, transport, filling and disposal / reuse of large plastic containers, solid ink allows users to replace their ink using a small block of solidified ink that becomes liquefied as it is used. As lifecycle energy efficient as competing products, solid ink products create far less waste than traditional imaging equipment. Solid Ink Technology is an alternative printing technology that has some compelling environmental attributes. The US Government's current energy programs, however, suffer design flaws that actually work contrary to its stated goals of promoting sustainable products in the marketplace, and solid ink is one example of how the Government's policies need to be adopted to new technologies with great environmental promise.