Vice President Biden: Use Open Data and Innovation to Help Americans Find Jobs

To help job seekers, employers, and local policy makers better navigate labor market information, Vice President Joe Biden and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) are issuing a call-to-action to improve the tools and services for Americans to more seamlessly access and navigate the job market.

So, on June 25, 2014, more than 65 public and private sector innovators came together at the White House for the 21st Century Jobs Data Jam, a day-long workshop convened by the Office of the Vice President, OSTP, and the Departments of Labor and Commerce.

During the morning session, Vice President Joe Biden joined the technology leaders, design and user experience experts, and leading policymakers to challenge them to think about these problem at person-by-person level: how do we help real people find real jobs.

[Overmann is Senior Advisor to the United States Chief Technology Officer, Aidinoff is Assistant Director for Policy in the Office of the Vice President]