Tech fellows to embed with Congress

A handful of technologists are slated to embed with members of Congress in 2016 as part of a fellowship at New America's Open Technology Institute. In its infancy, the the program will only place about three individuals with technology backgrounds into congressional offices. But the Open Technology Institute said it is the first of "several new projects" in the area.

Former congressional staffer Travis Moore created the program earlier in 2015, but the Open Technology Institute announced that it absorbed the program and would fund it through donations from Reid Hoffman, and investor and cofounder of LinkedIn. "Congress is struggling to keep up with technology in part because it doesn’t have a pipeline for tech talent. TechCongress will change that," Moore said.