In early July 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued its 2023 report on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Innovations: A Global Public Health Perspective. This insightful and detailed report is the result of strategic engagement with a panel of global health experts through the use of an online Delphi method, roundtable discussions, and key informant interviews. The purpose of this report is to identify innovations in research and emerging technologies that have the potential to impact global health in the next five to ten years.
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When Linux Is the Face of Kindness
By Phil Shapiro | September 7, 2016
My late father, Lou Shapiro, was an early leader of UNICEF, so relief work was baked into the genetics of my family. His work was centered on emergency relief for the survivors of earthquakes and other natural disasters. Whenever there was an earthquake in the world, I knew dad would be coming home late from work—and I was so proud that some family experiencing trauma would be sleeping in a dry tent, with warm blankets and clean water, because of my dad's work...
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When Should Open Source Be Written Into Law?
Jon Buys | Ostatic | January 22, 2012
I would suggest three areas of software which should be available upon request, without question. 1. Medical Implants. Unequivocally, any programmable electronic device which we put into our bodies should be available for review...
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When the Hacker Ethic Meets Old Ideas About Brand
By Chad Whitacre | July 31, 2017
Open organizations apply principles from open source software development more broadly. Existing organizations find the open approach appealing because it promises gains in productivity and efficiency—but openness may have farther-reaching consequences than we anticipate or intend. One influential set of open principles comes from Steven Levy's book about the early history of the computing revolution, Hackers. Levy lays out what he calls "the Hacker Ethic," and it begins with "the Hands-On Imperative"...
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When the Healthcare System Works
By John D. Halamka, MD | August 4, 2015
As I’ve written about several times in the past, this “care traffic control”, directing the patient to right intensity of care, then closing the loop for followup care is the future of medicine. It’s high quality, lower cost, and improves outcomes. The IT systems required to do it are more about workflow and process than the simple capture of records. As we envision the next generation of electronic tools, support for team based care with handoff management and closed loop communication among the stakeholders will be the most important new features. Read More »
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Where Have All the MacBooks Gone at Linux Conferences?
Bryan Lunduke | Network World | May 2, 2016
Back in 2007, I went to O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON). That particular year Canonical had a mini-summit, which happened in the two days before OSCON, called Ubuntu Live. I honestly don't remember much about any of the sessions I attended all those years ago. But one memory stands out like a spotlight pointed straight at my face: almost every single laptop I saw in use at Ubuntu Live was a MacBook. Nearly every single one. Row after row of little glowing Apple logos filling every conference room...
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Where NASA And Instagram Get Open Source Databases
Adrian Bridgwater | Computer Weekly | September 10, 2012
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced the PostgreSQL 9.2 open source database with native JSON support, covering indexes, replication and performance improvements. Read More »
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White House Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Open Access Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset
Press Release |
White House |
March 16, 2020
Today, researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Coronavirus group. Requested by The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the dataset represents the most extensive machine-readable Coronavirus literature collection available for data and text mining to date, with over 29,000 articles, more than 13,000 of which have full text.
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White House Gears Up For Second 'Hackathon'
Frank Konkel | FCW | April 8, 2013
The White House is looking for hackers, tech experts and developers to participate in its second Hackathon on June 1. The goal is to produce "full, production-ready applications and visualization tools" that will be used on the We the People petitioning system under an open-source license. Read More »
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White House To Host Open Data Day Hackathon
Frank Konkel | FCW | February 6, 2013
Do you know your way around an application programming interface? Do open data and data visualization make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? Want to work on the code that allowed the public to petition for the administration to build a Death Star or let Texas secede from the country? Read More »
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Who Controls Your Smartphone? And How to Leverage Open Source to Prevent it from Spying on You
By Simon Hartley | December 14, 2020
There are many things about today’s world that warrant us asking that question. Do you or the mobile vendor control your smartphones? If you are a consumer, small or medium business (SMB) -- the answer is the vendor...What if you are a large enterprise or a government agency? The answer is still the vendor...How can the user regain control? Not all vendors have locked devices and walled gardens. Google’s line of Pixel hardware, for example, is a mid-market solution whose bootloader allows locking and re-locking. Pixels support two versions of Android. Google Mobile Services (GMS), where free services are tied to data monetization and a UX like Apple and Samsung devices. Secondly, Pixels can run Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) code that shares the same strengths as the GMS build, but the customer controls the code base and updates. There are several companies that are selling AOSP operating system builds for Pixel and other unlockable/lockable mobile phones and tablets...
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WHO Releases Report on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Innovations
By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | July 31, 2023
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Why 2012 Is Shaping Up to Be a Banner Year for Linux in the Cloud
Sam Dean | OStatic | December 14, 2011
Will 2012 be the year that Linux begins to dominate the cloud? That's the prediction of many a pundit. Many individual users of Linux don't necessarily have uses for cloud storage and cloud services, but as Linux becomes more firmly entrenched in businesses, and as cloud computing advances in general, Linux and the cloud are converging faster than ever. Here are some strong signals of this trend.
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Why 2017 Will Belong to Open Source
Staff Writer | ETCIO.com | January 18, 2017
A few years ago, open source was the less-glamourous and low-cost alternative in the enterprise world, and no one would have taken the trouble to predict what its future could look like. Fast-forward to 2016, many of us will be amazed by how open source has become the de facto standard for nearly everything inside an enterprise. Open source today is the primary engine for innovation and business transformation. Cost is probably the last reason for an organisation to go in for open source...
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Why 2018 Was a Breakout Year for Open Source Deals
Klint Finley | Wired | December 23, 2018
At the beginning of 2018, it didn't seem like the open source movement could get any bigger. Android, the world's most popular mobile operating system; websites including Facebook and Wikipedia; and a growing number of gadgets have open source software under the hood-literally, in the case of cars. The world's largest companies, including Walmart and JP Morgan Chase, not only use open source but have released their own open source software so the rest of the world can modify and share their code. Then, in June, Microsoft announced plans to buy GitHub, the platform used by millions of developers and companies, including Google and Walmart, to host popular open source projects, for $7.5 billion.
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Why All Pharmaceutical Research Should Be Made Open Access
Cory Doctorow | The Guardian | November 20, 2012
The government wants to make all publicly funded research available – but the same must be demanded of pharmas also Read More »
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