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In Health Care, Price Transparency Alone Isn’t Enough

Ki Mae Heussner | GigaOM | January 4, 2012

As startups and consumer advocates push for more transparency in health care pricing, a study in the Journal of Consumer Research looks at how the price of medication can influence consumers’ perceived health risk. Read More »

In Kenyan Slum, Mobile Phones Pinpoint Better Water

Sarina A. Beges | FSI Stanford News | October 26, 2012

Single-room shacks with mud walls, metal roofs and dirt floors sleep families of eight here. Plastic bags filled with human waste are thrown into unpaved streets [...].Trash piles up in front of homes and storefronts. The flies are everywhere. People struggle to survive but the appetite for change is strong. Read More »

Internet For All: Alliance For Affordable Internet Founded

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | October 7, 2013

The newly formed Alliance for Affordable Internet will attempt to drive down Internet prices throughout the developing world. Read More »

iPad-Toting Doctors Fuel Publisher Profits As Paper Fades

Staff Writer | Daily Herald | September 14, 2013

Ohio doctor Mrunal Shah recently shipped four boxes of medical texts to developing countries because he can't recall the last time he cracked a book rather than tapping for information on his iPad... Read More »

Is The Global Fund Heading Backwards On Access To Medicines?

Suerie Moon | PLOS.org | December 1, 2013

For nearly a decade, a bright spot on World AIDS Day has been steady growth in the number of people in developing countries accessing lifesaving HIV treatment [...]. But this year, Board discussions at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have set off alarm bells about a potential retreat from [...] policies that enabled such progress. Read More »

It’s Time To Change American Disease-Management Into A Health-Fostering System

Joseph Mercola | Mercola.com | March 18, 2013

I’ve recently written a couple of articles about the exorbitant cost of medical care in the US, which is incompatible with the poor health outcomes of Americans at large. Americans pay the most for but reap the least amount of benefits from their health care, compared to other industrialized nations... Read More »

Jenny Aker On Mobile Phones And Economic Development In Africa

Staff Writer | CDDRL News | November 9, 2009

Jenny Aker an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, provided an overview of the welfare impacts of mobile technologies and how current research is testing our assumptions about the benefits of mobile phones for individuals in developing countries. Read More »

Josh Cohen: Mobile Development Meets Design Thinking

Staff Writer | CDDRL News | September 23, 2010

Joshua Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Law at Stanford University, began the first session of this quarter's Seminar on Liberation Technologies by posing a big question: are information and communication technologies able to advance human well-being for development? Read More »

Lessons From AWS Part I: The Crush Of The Boa Constrictor

Gabriel Lowy | Tech-Tonics | June 12, 2013

The cloud industry is often portrayed as a race between Amazon’s AWS, Google’s Compute Engine and Microsoft’s Windows Azure.  The reality however, at least to date, is more like AWS and the also-rans.  The lesson is scale and the classroom is Walmart. Read More »

Lessons From AWS Part II: Is Open Source Lock-In Better?

Gabriel Lowy | Tech-Tonics | June 15, 2013

In Part I, I drew comparisons between AWS and Walmart, and emphasized differentiation as the key component to compete with the 800-pound cloud gorilla.  For over a decade, I have held that open source is the antidote to vendor lock-in and dis-innovation.  In Part II, I maintain that advocacy, but with a caveat... Read More »

Lessons from AWS Part III: Consumer Platform Drives Cloud Lead

Gabriel Lowy | Tech-Tonics | June 24, 2013

There has been a lot of discussion, including Part I of this series, about Amazon’s relentless leverage of scale to drive down pricing in cloud services.  What is much less talked about is how its consumer platform drives its cloud leadership. Read More »

Maine Doctor Cuts Prices In Half By Refusing Health Insurance

Kristen Butler | UPI.com | May 29, 2013

Maine doctor Michael Ciampi stopped accepting insurance enabling him to cut prices in half and make house calls. Read More »

Makerbot Clone Tests The Limits of Open Source Hardware

Michael Weinberg | Public Knowledge | September 11, 2012

Most people who know of Makerbot know them as a one of the leaders in the home 3D printing market.  Fewer people realize that they are also one of the highest profile examples of another movement: open source hardware. Read More »

Medicare Prescribes More Brand Name Drugs Than VA

Genevra Pittman | Reuters | June 10, 2013

Medicare Part D beneficiaries are two to three times more likely than those covered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to be prescribed brand name diabetes drugs rather than generics, a new study suggests. Read More »

MfarmerSMS Service Links Farmers To Better Markets In Nakaseke- Uganda

Peter Balaba | FrontlineSMS | March 14, 2013

The MFarmer SMS service [...] helps farmers in rural areas to connect with better markets. It encourages two-way feedback with farmers, buyers and agro-processors, and other service providers. The project is designed to help farmers access agricultural market price information and weather information through their mobile phones. Read More »