Sprints
Learn about sprints and how we tackle national challenges.
Sprints are 12-week product development cycles that bring together tech teams and collaborators to build public-facing digital products using open data.
Workforce
2019
America’s workers, entrepreneurs, and investors have defined the American ethos and economy from the moment our nation was founded. Unfortunately, much of the country’s economic investment focuses in just a few major cities. Many small towns, mid-size cities, and rural communities lack consistent investment and high-tech talent pools, leaving these communities with limited career options and anxious about their economic futures. In this sprint, tech teams including Citi Ventures, Public Democracy, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, and others developed digital products to revitalize low-income communities and bring jobs to local residents, empower entrepreneurs and innovation ecosystem builders, and highlight multiple pathways for workers to start or advance careers.
Catalyzing Investment in Opportunity Zones
Challenge:
Create digital tools and resources to connect investors with community leaders, entrepreneurs, and workers of America’s 8,764 Opportunity Zones
Agency
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, White House Council of Economic Advisors
Target Audience
Entrepreneurs, managers of Opportunity Zone funds, and community leaders in Opportunity Zones
Modernizing Talent Discovery for High Growth Entrepreneurship
Challenge:
Create digital tools or open sourced data to transform talent discovery, matching, and retention in mid-size cities across the country, to help them achieve innovation and regional economic growth.
Agency
U.S. Economic Development Administration
Target Audience
Entrepreneurs, entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs), incubators, accelerators, seed funds, state and local leaders, and growth companies in rural and mid-sized cities where talent pools are less concentrated or nascent.
Helping the American Workforce Leverage Multiple Pathways for Career Growth
Challenge:
Create digital tools that help American workers to consider and take advantage of the multiple pathways available to find or advance in careers. Tools could 1)make multiple pathways to career success more attractive by helping people envision them as exciting and prestigious, and/or 2) help to make data on these opportunities user friendly and discoverable by American workers.
Agency
U.S. Department of Education
Target Audience
Young people (ages 14-24) who are trying to determine the best career path or people seeking new careers or skills, Veterans, People returning from incarceration, Local and state education and workforce development policymakers, Community colleges and trade schools
Resources to Unleash American Entrepreneurship
Challenge:
Develop tools to empower entrepreneurs and innovation ecosystem builders to find and navigate the variety of resources available across the federal government.
Agency
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Target Audience
Individuals starting or scaling high-growth, science and technology-based companies – at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey (early stage, scale up or commercialization); innovation ecosystem builders , including entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs), incubators, accelerators, seed funds, and state and local economic development leaders.