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Why Obama’s Tech-Savvy Team Couldn’t Make Obamacare Glitch-Free

Juliet Eilperin | Washington Post | October 9, 2013

As the online rollout of the Affordable Care Act continues to be plagued by glitches, many of the president’s allies and foes are wondering the same thing: how could the most tech-savvy White House in history launch a flawed Web site? Read More »

Why Representative Democracies Can't Write Off Transparency

Alexander Furnas | The Atlantic | January 16, 2014

This week, arguing that “transparency is overrated,” Amitai Etzioni presented a familiar critique. In his telling, transparency is ineffective because people cannot or do not act on disclosed information in ways that affect real policy outcomes. What he misses is that disclosure occurs within an ecosystem of interest groups and advocacy organizations that remix, repackage, and redistribute information once it is released. [...] Read More »

Why Telemedicine’s Window Is Finally Opening

Krista Drobac | VB News | October 20, 2014

...The telemedicine window has opened, and 2015 will be the year that we go through it. The idea of telemedicine has floated around in the “soup” primarily in relation to ensuring care in rural areas...

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With Elections Awash in Cash, There’s Plenty of Blame to Go Around

John Harwood | New York Times | June 22, 2012

David Axelrod, President Obama’s political strategist, recently invoked a common perception about the 2012 campaign by blaming the Supreme Court for empowering 21st-century “robber barons trying to take over the government.” Read More »

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) & Harvard Model U.N. 2012 Meeting

Asia Syeda | CoolAge | June 14, 2012

...Access to Knowledge - A movement that has taken innumerable forms in World Politics. Led by developing countries who face intense competition in the light of stringent Global Intellectual Property Laws, it aims to create more equitable public access to the products of human culture and learning.

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