Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center (AMARC) – WebSite Is Up

One of the two major areas of focus for me these days is AMARC. I am working with Tom Suder, the President of MobileGov on setting AMARC up.

We just finished setting up our webpage, www.amarcedu.org.

We are in the process of creating an Advisory Board consisting of Academic, Government, and Corporate members to provide intellectual direction for AMARC and to provide support for the Summits and Annual conferences where AMARC will be the host organization and/or involved.

If your company is interested in joining, if you need additional information and/or you would like to get involved, please use the “Contact” link on the webpage or contact me directly. I would be glad to meet with/speak to/write about mobile technology issues to help get each of you involved in this very important activity.

The AMARC mission is to Re-imagine Government Through Mobile Communications.  It is a non-profit incorporated in Virginia with three initial goals:

• Increase the efficiency and optimize the delivery of government services in the US at all levels through the utilization of mobile communications technology
• Implement such efficiency and optimization through the greater integration of academic research capabilities with government organizations and their corporate partners
• Emphasize STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) investments, training at academic institutions and the exposure of students interested in STEM to government and academic careers

It is a pretty exciting project. Mobile technologies are in the process or changing the delivery of Government services as well as creating organization disruptions internally. Being a part of these efforts and with the opportunity to give back from some of my experiences inside Government and supporting Government program implementations for <mumble, mumble> years is great fun.

You can get a copy of an AMARC Description.