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Enabling The Internet Of Things: Q&A With Libelium CEO Alicia Asin

Will Dalton | ITProPortal | September 2, 2013

As part of a busy September for ITProPortal, we'll be attending GigaOm's Structure:Europe cloud conference from the 18th to 19th. We caught up with one of the event's headline speakers ahead of the London show - Alicia Asin, CEO and Co-founder of Spain's Libelium. Read More »

Expensive Healthcare Doesn’t Help Americans Live Longer

Olga Khazan | The Atlantic | December 13, 2013

Among developed countries, a new report says, the U.S. ranks very low in translating health dollars into longer lives—particularly for women Read More »

Female Vets Feeling Better About VA Care

Chuck Liddy | Stars and Stripes | June 10, 2012

At the opening of a new women’s clinic in the Durham VA Medical Center in 1995, hospital officials planted a Leyland cypress sapling not 5 feet tall. It marked both the outside door to the clinic, where female veterans could enter the building without threading through waiting areas full of men, and, symbolically, a new era in the way the government planned to care for women who had served in its armed forces.

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Food Tech Leaves Rural People Behind

Michel Martin | NPR News | April 24, 2014

Technology enhanced food production has come a long way, but nearly an eighth of the population still suffers from chronic hunger. The United Nations' Kanayo Nwanze discusses what might help. Read More »

Frontline Health Workers’ Key Role in Improving Nutrition

Sarah Dwyer and Geeta Sharma | CapacityPlus | June 6, 2013

Sunita Kumari was struggling to get her message across. Working as an auxiliary nurse midwife in Gumla District, Jharkhand, India, she kept trying to mobilize the women of Toto, a village of 941 houses, to participate in Village Health and Nutrition Days. [...] Read More »

FrontlineSMS at 7: ActionAid In Kenya, Nepal And London

Laura Walker Hudson | FrontlineSMS | December 29, 2012

In the seventh and final post in our FrontlineSMSat7 series, our CEO Laura Walker Hudson highlights a FrontlineSMS use case that makes her happy – ActionAid’s award-winning, bi-continental pilots of FrontlineSMS in Africa and Europe. Read More »

Help Spark Girls' Interest In STEM Careers: TopCoder Hosting $10,000 STEM-Themed Poster Contest

Press Release | TopCoder, Inc. | July 31, 2013

TopCoder, Google and the National Center for Women & Information Technology collaborate to encourage young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics Read More »

Hesperian Health Guides Addresses Maternal Health

Cathleen O'Grady | Foundation Beyond Belief | July 23, 2013

According to the United Nations, more than 350,000 women die every year from maternity-related complications, with the risk being vastly higher in the developing world. [...] Read More »

Hospitals Often Don't Report Robotic Surgery Adverse Events

Ashley Gold | FierceHealth IT | January 2, 2014

While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration oversees a database that reports deaths and injuries associated with medical devices, the agency has no authority to force medical providers to contribute to the database. To that end, many hospitals fail to report adverse events associated with robotic surgery procedures, according to a recent Bloomberg investigation. Read More »

If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Morra Aarons-Mele | Harvard Business Review | June 14, 2013

[...] Ideally, a brand and a woman of influence interact directly, one to one. But there's something that's increasingly coloring our relationship. It's her phone. The phone is more than our hardware. It's our lifeline. Read More »

Increasing participation of Women in Free and Open Source Software

Marina Zhurakhinskaya | OpenSource.Com | April 16, 2013

Few women have been historically applying for Google Summer of Code, a program in which Google provides stipends for students to work for three months on FOSS projects. Last year, after many efforts by both the Google team and the community to increase the diversity in the program, about 100 of 1200 participants or 8.3% were women, which was a highest level of participation by women yet. Read More »

Industry Welcomes DeSalvo To ONC

Erin McCann | Government Health IT | December 20, 2013

Karen DeSalvo, MD, current health commissioner of New Orleans, will be taking the ONC reins Jan. 13, replacing acting national coordinator Jacob Reider. She is the first woman to serve in this role. Read More »

Kenyan Ushahidi Co-Founder Wins Award For Outstanding Social Commitment

Makumi Mercy | HumanIPO | July 18, 2013

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 »

Konektaz Open Development & Open Data

Staff Writer | Geeks Without Bounds | April 11, 2013

On April 15, 2013 the United Nations marked the 1000 day mark to the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals. The eight goals are [as follows]... Read More »

Ladies Learning Code: Non-Profit Helps Young Women Get Tech-Savvy

Michael Oliveira | Huffington Post | April 26, 2012

Frustrated with a lack of female-targeted resources to help women learn high-tech skills for today's digital world, Heather Payne decided to act. The 25-year-old's brainwave is Toronto-based non-profit Ladies Learning Code, a group that aims to "empower everyone to feel comfortable learning beginner-friendly technical skills in a social, collaborative way." Read More »