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Food Tech Leaves Rural People Behind
Technology enhanced food production has come a long way, but nearly an eighth of the population still suffers from chronic hunger. The United Nations' Kanayo Nwanze discusses what might help. Read More »
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Forced Exposure
The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum. What to do? Read More »
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Former Federal CIO Presses for Social Government
Kundra envisions a world where national, state and local governments will post computer code for custom-built applications to do everything from mapping potholes to processing health care data in a collaborative site similar to Salesforce's AppExchange. Technology officials in Chicago can then grab a pothole mapping app from San Francisco, New York or even New Delhi and retrofit it for their own needs without investing in a proprietary system.
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Frank Baitman Takes Over as HHS CIO
Frank Baitman is the new chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services. John Teeter, the HHS deputy CIO, confirmed Baitman started in mid-February. "We are getting him up to speed and in motion at HHS and I'm sure he'll do a fantastic job," Teeter said. Read More »
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French Parliament Says Free Software Is A Priority In Education
France's Senate and National Assembly agree to make free software a priority for education. This Wednesday the National Assembly confirmed a proposal by the Senate, urging institutions of higher educations to prefer this type of solution. [...] Read More »
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Google Sees More Government Requests To Remove Content 'Than Ever Before'
In the latest edition of its Transparency Report, released this morning, Google revealed that the final six months of 2012 saw an increase in government requests to remove content -- often YouTube videos... Read More »
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Google: 'Government Surveillance Is On The Rise'
It's not just Petraeus. Google is seeing ever greater efforts by governments to monitor citizens' online activity. Read More »
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Gov 2.0: Now the Real Work Begins
The go-go days of “Gov 2.0” social media and mobile applications likely are over. That's not to say that Gov 2.0 is passé. It's just that we are in transition from a period of rapid adoption and experimentation into a time of more discerning judgments about value and efficiency. That applies to familiar social formats and also the newer formats including Google Plus and Facebook Timeline. Read More »
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Government Attacked Over Deals With Fast-Food Industry: ‘Pure Illusion’ To Think This Approach Can Cut Obesity
Scathing World Health Organisation report warns UK cannot tackle epidemic unless Government changes policy Read More »
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Government CIOs Have More Clout, Shorter Terms
Government chief information officers stay in their positions one year less on average than their private sector peers, according to new research by Gartner. Read More »
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Government Has Dropped The Ball On IT Reform, Lawmaker Says
Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., lashed out at government technology leaders on Wednesday for being slow to adopt cost-saving reforms laid out early in the Obama administration and for failing to adequately report their progress. Read More »
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Government Healthcare IT Plans Hinge On Open Data
Health and Human Services CTO sees big future in big health data as the government looks to expand its repository of publicly available, machine-readable data sets. Read More »
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Governments Get Open On GitHub
A new GitHub site aggregates and showcases the open source repositories managed by governments and civic minded hackers Read More »
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Govt Takes Forward Open Standards Plans
The Cabinet Office has launched a consultation on open standards for government IT. Read More »
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Grading the Public Options That Already Exist
Pundits and politicians from both sides of the fence have been hollering themselves blue about a potential public health care option. Instead of relying on private insurers, the government would insure people itself...Two of the three health care reform bills in Congress have a public option. What might a public option look like in practice? One way to find out is to look at what's already out there. Read More »
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