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TransCelerate BioPharma Inc. Releases Recommended Approach For Protecting Personal Data In Clinical Study Reports

Press Release | TransCelerate BioPharma Inc. | September 2, 2014

TransCelerate BioPharma Inc. ("TransCelerate") today announced that it has developed a recommended approach for protecting personal data in Clinical Study Reports (CSRs) that are shared with researchers, patients and others. The document describes an approach to apply when redacting or removing personal information from CSRs and other related clinical trial documents...

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Transformation of Health System Needed to Improve Care and Reduce Costs

Press Release | Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF), Charina Endowment Fund, , Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Institute of Medicine (IoM) | September 6, 2012

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Read More »

Transparency Antidote to Dark Money This Election

Editorial | PatriotLedger.com | March 17, 2012

This Sunshine Week, as the nation commemorates the importance of open government and freedom of information, the Sunlight Foundation is leading a campaign to engage voters to call on their lawmakers and the Obama administration to address the disastrous effects of the game-changing rulings by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and a federal district court in SpeechNow.org v. FEC. Read More »

Transparency International Reports on Massive Corruption in the Pharmaceutical Sector - Media Hardly Notices

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | June 8, 2016

In 2006, TI published a report on health care corruption, which asserted that corruption is widespread throughout the world, serious, and causes severe harm to patients and society. "Corruption might mean the difference between life and death for those in need of urgent care. It is invariably the poor in society who are affected most by corruption because they often cannot afford bribes or private health care. But corruption in the richest parts of the world also has its costs"...

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Transparency Life Sciences Launches Indication Finder™ Crowdsourcing Tool For Drug Repurposing

Press Release | Transparency Life Sciences (TLS) | October 24, 2012

Transparency Life Sciences (TLS), the world's first drug development company based on open innovation, today announced the launch of Indication Finder™, a survey-based crowdsourcing tool designed to identify promising new indications for existing drug candidates. Read More »

Trial Designed With Crowd Input Gets FDA Signoff

Marc Iskowitz | MM&M | December 28, 2012

What's been called the first clinical study protocol developed using crowdsourcing methods received the FDA's imprimatur earlier this month. The agency approved Transparency Life Sciences' IND for a clinical trial designed to test a generic blood-pressure medication, ACE inhibitor lisinopril, in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Read More »

Twitter Breaks Rank, Threatens To Fight NSA Gag Orders

Brendan Sasso | Nextgov | February 6, 2014

Twitter threatened to launch a legal battle with the Obama administration on Thursday over gag orders that prevent it from disclosing information about surveillance of its users. Read More »

Twitter Helps Feds With Transparency

Aliya Sternstein | NextGov | July 3, 2012

With a wink and a nod to the Independence Day holiday, Twitter started posting the number of requests for user information from the U.S. government and other nations. America ranks No. 1, demanding access to 948 user accounts -- a point not lost on the Twitterverse, which decried a Monday court win by government prosecutors in a case over retrieving certain Occupy Wall Street tweets. Read More »

Two Sides to Open Development

Ian Thorpe | KM on a Dollar a Day | May 9, 2012

Ever since Robert Zoelick’s speech on “democratizing development” there has been a lot of buzz around the idea of open development and lots of discussion about what it really means... Read More »

U.S. Copyright Surveillance Machine About To Be Switched On, Promises Of Transparency Already Broken

Mitch Stoltz | Electronic Frontier Foundation | November 15, 2012

The "Copyright Alert System" – an elaborate combination of surveillance, warnings, punishments, and "education" directed at customers of most major U.S. Internet service providers – is poised to launch in the next few weeks, as has been widely reported. The problems with it are legion. Read More »

U.S. Government Launches Code.gov to Showcase Its Open-Source Software

Jordan Novet | Venture Beat | November 3, 2016

The White House today is announcing the launch of Code.gov, a website that shows off U.S. government open-source projects and offers relevant resources for government agencies. By launching this site the White House is hoping to improve public access to the government’s software and encourage the reuse of software across government agencies...

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U.S. Government Seeks Reduced Use of Custom Software, Releases New Policy to 'Free the Code'

As I've written before, there has been a shift, going back almost a decade, away from the debate over whether to use open source to a focus on the how to. The release by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of the U.S. Federal Source Code Policy on August 8th is the latest manifestation of this shift. It achieves the goal laid out in the Obama administration's Second Open Government National Action Plan (PDF) for improved access to custom software code developed for the federal government. The plan emphasized use of (and contributing back to) open source software to fuel innovation, lower costs, and benefit the public. It also furthers a long-standing "default to open" objective going back to the early days of the administration...

U.S.-India Joint Commission on Science and Technology Cooperation Announces Accomplishments

Brand Niemann | AOLGovernment | June 12, 2012

Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Minister Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh from the India Ministry of Science, Technology and Earth Sciences, led the second U.S.-India Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation on Monday in Washington, D.C.

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Uchaguzi Kenya 2013 Launched

Daudi Were | Ushahidi | February 11, 2013

...This makes us very proud today to announce the official launch of the Uchaguzi Kenya 2013 partnership. Uchaguzi’s aim is to help Kenya have a free, fair, peaceful, and credible general election. Uchaguzi’s strategy for this is to contribute to stability in Kenya by increasing transparency and accountability through active citizen participation in the electoral cycles...
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Uganda: Embrace Open Data for Development

Bernard Sabiti | allAfrica | August 24, 2012

...this entire problem could be avoided if all the stakeholders involved embraced open data, a new phenomenon that is increasingly becoming the new normal in development. Open data, or open development, as some are calling it, in a more comprehensive sense, is where organisations are using Information technologies to provide and share information using simple computer applications.

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