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Join EFF’s Efforts To Keep 3D Printing Open
Thanks to the open hardware community, you can now have a 3D printer in your home for just a few hundred dollars [...]. This incredible innovation is possible because the core patents covering 3D printing technologies started expiring several years ago, allowing projects such as RepRap to prove what we already knew—that openness often outperforms the patent system at spurring innovation. Read More »
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Join The Crisismappers!
Crisismappers of all map forms, organizations and disciplines will be converging on Nairobi in November 2013 for the 5th Annual International Conference of Crisismappers (ICCM) . Join important humanitarian, human rights, development and media organizations along with the world’s best technology companies, academics, journalists and hackers. [...] Read More »
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Josh Cohen: Mobile Development Meets Design Thinking
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 »
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Kahn to MIT Graduates: Open Content is the Future
Open education innovator Sal Khan, MIT alumnus and founder of Khan Academy, gave the commencement address at MIT graduation ceremony on June 8, a speech that included both a nod to the power of open education as exemplified by MIT's OpenCourseWare program and Khan's own web site, and an homage to the importance of the unique academic community that is MIT.
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Kaiser Permanente Invites Software Developers To Build Apps
Health care giant Kaiser Permanente took small steps today allowing developers to access code to public information residing on its website, through an application programming interface (API). Read More »
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Kaiser Talks Up Monkey Game, Talks Down EMR Integration
When Kaiser Permanente debuted its Interchange platform API initiative last month, the company made it clear that they would not be feeding patient health information into third party apps or devices via APIs. While the health system has done notable research into incorporating things like exercise data into its EMR, it isn’t interested in integrating just any data stream. Read More »
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Kathryn Cave (Kenya) Interview: Laura Walker Hudson CEO, Foundation At FrontlineSMS – The Power Of Text
The Text message is the most basic form of technological communication, possible on even the oldest mobile phone. This makes it open to virtually anyone, anywhere in the world. FrontlineSMS is the Open Source software which enables users to turn any laptop into a hub for sending, receiving and managing SMS over a mobile network. Read More »
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Kenya Pushes Technology Into Overdrive
The country that gave the world two groundbreaking innovations in technology: M-Pesa, a mobile banking system, and Ushahidi, a platform for crowdsourcing information during disasters, is now taking its technological talents to new heights. The East African nation of Kenya has just started construction on a 5,000-acres piece of land in Konza... Read More »
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Kenyan Ushahidi Co-Founder Wins Award For Outstanding Social Commitment
Juliana Rotich, Ushahidi co-founder and managing director, has been honoured with with an Impact Award at the DLDwomen 2013 conference in Munich. Read More »
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Kickstarter Doesn't Do Healthcare, MedStartr Seizes Opportunity
MedStartr is a new way to fund healthcare initiatives—think Kickstarter for doctors, patients, and what ails them. It's headed up by Mike Pence and Alex Fair, two guys of different backgrounds and expertise who've come together to share the same dream and passion for helping those in physical need. Read More »
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Kinsa Smart Thermometer Takes Grand Prize In Innovate Health Tech
Kinsa Smart Thermometer was announced today as the $25k grand prize winner in Innovate Health Tech NYC, a competition designed to promote innovation within NYC’s health technology sector... Read More »
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Launch Of The Open Health Community
Enviu launched their newest project, the Open Health Community, together with Achmea. With this startup we want to find an innovative business model to improve the quality, affordability and accessibility of health care throughout the world. Read More »
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Learning From Kenya: Mobile Money Transfer and Co-Working Spaces
Since Africa is trying to solve problems that we in the Western world do not have, it’s tempting to say that innovation there isn’t really relevant to us. But upon visiting Africa, one realizes that to ignore its recent innovations is a big mistake.
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Less Neglect, More Openness: Two ‘Grand Experiments’ In Health Innovation
Commemorating the 10th Anniversaries of PLOS and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Bernard Pécoul, Executive Director of DNDi, discusses the innovative journeys of the organisations. Read More »
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Lessons From AWS Part II: Is Open Source Lock-In Better?
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 »
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