Megan Smith
Megan Smith
Megan J. Smith is the Chief Technology Officer of the United States. She was previously a vice president of Google at Google, was vice president of business development at Google for nine years, and was general manager of Google.org and the former CEO of Planet Out. She serves on the boards of MIT and Vital Voices, is a member of the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Aid and co-founded the Malala Fund. On September 4, 2014, she was named as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
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There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.
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I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft's Developer Conference, Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference, Oracle World, Le Web, and more.
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I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.
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For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.
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I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.
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The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
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The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.
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This was a great indication of where we're at in starting this program. We came out and really took it to them in the first game. But it's hard to stay consistent when you have a really young team. We're doing the best we can, and you can see that we fought back twice (in the late game) and that shows that our girls have a lot of heart.
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There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.
What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface.
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We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys.
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We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.
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We've never won, even though we've gotten so close before.
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Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.