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Ethiopian Kids Hack OLPCs In 5 Months With Zero Instruction
What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa. Read More »
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Fast Forward: FCC Enhances Spectrum Access to Spur Wireless and Mobile Health Care Innovation
Talk about fast forwarding health care into the future: Earlier this month, FCC Chairman Genachowski announced a plan for enhanced spectrum access for testing new wireless health innovations, with the goal of “speeding new mobile and wireless health technologies to market” to create a “wireless health care revolution.” Read More »
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Federal CTO Todd Park Taps the Private Sector to Drive Innovation
In mid-2010, the already frenetic Todd Park was in overdrive. President Obama had just signed the Affordable Care Act into law, the most significant reform of the American health care system since Medicare. It was Park’s job to figure out how government could use technology to make the law’s implementation as smooth and fruitful as possible. Read More »
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Freedom For Scholarship In The Internet Age
Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communication system and alternatives, focusing on the potential of open access. [...] Read More »
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French Radio on Open Source Technologies for Clinical Trials
Clinovo was recently interviewed by the French radio BFM Business for l’Atelier Numerique, a weekly 2-hour broadcast dedicated to innovation and new technologies in the Silicon Valley. Marc Desgrousilliers, CTO at Clinovo and Ismael Ghalimi, CEO at Sutoiku described how open source technologies are used in the world of clinical trials. Read More »
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From Farming To Films: How The Web Is Changing Africa
Technology started to influence the way Africa develops in a big way with the introduction of GSM services in the late 1990s. A mobile revolution has positioned Africa as the fastest growing region on Earth for the telecoms industry, and with it has come a significant shift... Read More »
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FrontlineSMS Case Study Featured In New Rockefeller Foundation Report: Learning From Experimentation
The Rockefeller Foundation recently launched a new website, Capacity to Innovate.org, which examines lessons from a number of organizations including Ushahidi and Internews, and encapsulates them in three short reports which are well worth a read. FrontlineSMS is featured in the ‘Learning From Experimentation’ report, available from the website. Read More »
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Global Cloud Computing Visionaries to Take the Stage at GigaOM’s Structure: Europe Conference
GigaOM, a global technology media company, will host its second-annual Structure: Europe conference September 18-19 in London. Under the theme of building the global cloud, Structure: Europe will bring to the stage more than 60 cloud computing experts who are setting the pace for cloud innovation in Europe. Read More »
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Global E-Clinical Trial Technologies Market to Reach US$1.37 Billion by 2018, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on the E-Clinical Trial Technologies markets. The global market for E-Clinical Trial Technologies is forecast to reach US$1.37 billion by the year 2018... Read More »
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Government Culture Inhibits Shared Services
Technology has finally caught up with the will to share services more efficiently in government but federal agencies’ siloed and cautious culture is still a major impediment, the senior adviser to the government’s Chief Information Officers Council said Thursday. Read More »
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Government Presses for Blue Button Mobile App
The Obama administration has issued a presidential directive mandating that each federal agency make at least two government services available to the public via mobile applications within a year.
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Government's Push to Unleash Health Data 'Transformative'
FierceHealthIT recently caught up with founder and Chief Instigator Mark Scrimshire in Washington, D.C., to ask him about the importance of HealthCamp and to get his thoughts on the state of health IT in the U.S. today. Read More »
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Hacking Open Access: Sustainable Publication For Humanities
Although the open access movement has been going strong for over 10 years in the areas of natural sciences and medical sciences, the humanities and social sciences have lagged behind. However, OA is not only an exclusive STEM approach anymore, the humanities are also considering how they can transition in this direction...
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Harris Corporation Awarded $19 Million Contract to Create One of the Largest Healthcare Mobility Infrastructures for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Harris Corporation...has been awarded a two-year, $19 million contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Information and Technology to create a wireless network infrastructure for medical centers nationwide. Read More »
Headline Sponsors Harris Healthcare To Show How To Achieve Better Outcomes Through Value-Based Healthcare
Headline sponsors Harris Healthcare, will highlight the critical role of technology in providing value-based healthcare at this year's Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology EXPO at Olympia, London. Read More »
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