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In Capitol Hill testimony, Baker touts open-source advantage
VA technology chief Roger Baker made a spirited defense of the VA's plan to save money and improve its own EHR system through an open-source EHR improvement effort. Read More »
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In Kenya, Microfinance Is Going Mobile – Part 2
This blog has been written with the support of Tonny Omwansa, co-author of Money, Real Quick: The story of M-Pesa. We want to thank David James, CEO of Musoni and Sharon Langevin, Project Director of FrontlineSMS: Credit. Read Part 1 here. Read More »
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In Sochi, Open Source Maps Beat Google's
[...] OpenStreetMap, a free-to-edit and free-to-use world map often compared with Wikipedia, received a similar—though less validated—commendation last week, when the reporter Greg Miller at Wired found that its maps exceeded Google’s at describing Sochi, the home of the 2014 winter Olympics. Read More »
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In Their Own Words: Unix Pioneers Remember The Good Times
We caught up with the pioneers who brought us the Unix operating system and asked them to share some memories of the early days of Unix development. Read More »
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India Adopts A Comprehensive Open Source Policy
The Government of India (GOI) has adopted a comprehensive and supportive open source policy. It builds on their earlier efforts to adopt open standards for procurement. As we've seen in other regions, the adoption of such policies often brings out concerns from some quarters who want to spread 'fear and doubt' about the policy. So, what are the facts about the policy, and how does it fit into India's broader economic development strategy? Read More »
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Indian Govt Takes The Open Source Route
According to the latest draft policy on e-governance, all new projects must work on open source operating systems only. The draft Policy On Device Drivers For Procurement Of Hardware For e-governance says, “Government of India (GOI) endeavours to provide e-governance services, which are technology-neutral, cost effective, interoperable and vendor-neutral. Read More »
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Inevitable. Inextricable. Imminent.
Greeting Netizens. Since you are reading this blog, you obviously belong to the “Internet of Persons,” a growing global population of 2.5 billion of your fellow human beings. But as sentient surfers, you are not alone... Read More »
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Inflexible Contracts Only Increase Public Sector Open Source Potential
Proprietary suppliers on “thin ice” with inflexible contracts, but open source counterparts must embrace cost honesty, writes Hampshire County Council CIO Jos Creese-The debate about the pros and cons of open source over proprietary software is certainly not a new one, and evangelists and vendors alike have strong and coherent arguments on both sides...
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Inner-Sourcing: Adopting Open Source Development Processes In Corporate IT
Today, we are hearing from customers more and more frequently that they want to gain the benefits of open source community-style collaborative development inside their corporate development organizations – what Tim O’Reilly has called “inner-sourcing.” Read More »
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InnerSource: a practical application of open source techniques within organizational boundaries
Using open source methods within your own company--without offering up your resulting source code to the public--is called InnerSource. A report I wrote for O'Reilly Media titled Getting Started with InnerSource lays out some of the benefits of the open source model and how one company, PayPal, is carrying out both open source projects and InnerSource. Why would you want InnerSource? According to the report, your organization can grow and become more productive in several ways...
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Innovation And Trust In Open Source
It has been a fascinating year in Internet security, privacy, and related technologies. NSA revelations have given us a glimpse through the looking glass, leading to questions about the trustworthiness of the core technologies used to power the Internet. Read More »
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Innovative Device Puts Kenya On The Global Map
Large parts of Africa lack accurate real-time accurate weather data...The BRCK is a device that can be plugged into the weather station and used as an on-ramp for the Internet of Things (IoT)...
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Inside OpenSSL's Battle to Change its License: Coders' Rights, Tech Giants, Patents and More
The OpenSSL project, possibly the most widely used open-source cryptographic software, has a license to kill – specifically its own. But its effort to obtain permission to rewrite contributors' rights runs the risk of alienating the community that sustains it. The software is licensed under the OpenSSL License, which includes its own terms and those dating back to the preceding SSLeay license...
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Intel & OHSU Announce Collaborative Cancer Cloud at Intel Developer Forum
...Today, I announced at the Intel Developer Forum that we are setting our sights on making this scenario a reality through an ambitious, open Platform-as-a-Service solution called the Collaborative Cancer Cloud. The Collaborative Cancer Cloud is a precision medicine analytics platform that allows institutions to securely share patient genomic, imaging and clinical data for potentially lifesaving discoveries. It will enable large amounts of data from sites all around the world to be analyzed in a distributed way, while preserving the privacy and security of that patient data at each site...
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Intel Says Open Source 3D Printed Robots Are Coming
SAN FRANCISCO: 3D PRINTED, OPEN SOURCE ROBOTS that are going to bridge the gap between technology and humanity are on their way, according to Intel, which talked about its Twenty-first Century Robot initiative that will "bring science fact to science fiction". Read More »
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