Institute For The Future (IFTF)

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15 Blockchain Whitepapers Awarded Winners of US Department of Health and Human Services Challenge

Luke Parker | Brave New Coin | August 30, 2016

A challenge held by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)  to encourage Blockchain use in the Health Information Technology field resulted in 15 winning whitepapers. The Department’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) first announced the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-Related Research” challenge in July...

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How Open Data Is Transforming Democracy In Africa – And The Challenges It Faces

Tefo Mohapi | The Next Web | June 15, 2013

Kenya is at the forefront of the open data movement in Africa thanks to initiatives such as crowdsourcing software Ushahidi and government tracker Uchaguzi. Read More »

The Promise Of A New Internet

Adrienne Lafrance | The Atlantic | June 10, 2014

People tend to talk about the Internet the way they talk about democracy—optimistically, and in terms that describe how it ought to be rather than how it actually is...For years, Internet advocates have been asking what regulatory measures might help save the open, innovation-friendly Internet...

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