Past Events

The Open Source Development Conference (OSDC) 2011 in Canberra, Australia, has over 38 scheduled speakers, 42 talks, and mini-conferences this year covering a wide range of open source software topics.

Want to know more about using mobiles for social change, crowd sourced mapping, and how the two can combine? Keen to learn more about FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi, and how these software tools can be used together to enable positive social change? If you have questions about these tools which you’ve never had the chance to ask then Monday 7th November is your chance, at upcoming event:

This exciting event will take place in two cities on one evening; at the iHub in Nairobi, Kenya, from 6-8pm EAT and then later on at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, at 7-9pm GMT. Both events will host presentations on FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi, and will also hear from some community experts who have used these tools together in action for social change projects in various different countries and contexts across the world...

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Plan to attend the lunch briefing of the Capitol Hill “Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics” on Monday, November 7th 11:30 am – 1:00 pm in the Senate Visitors’ Center Room SVC 203-202. We will feature a high level overview of available federal agency grant, cooperative agreement, loan and contract programs for health information technology.  Agency leaders will be on hand to brief their programs and answer questions your constituents may have. Send your health legislative assistants and case workers to meet with these key officials:
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On November 7-8, EHealth Insider will be hosting its 2-day conference and exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, UK. The EHI Live 2011 will supply conference delegates with the latest updates on healthcare policy and innovation in the NHS while providing plenty of networking opportunities to all involved. Most significant, the exhibition will showcase an open source skunkworks concentrated on using open source software to solve healthcare problems.

Promoted as the essential conference and exhibition for the health IT community, this year's event will include the EHI Live 2011 Best Practice Showcase (bringing “exciting case studies” to the exhibition) and the EHI Awards Theatre (giving winners and finalists from the EHI Awards 2010 a chance to discuss their works in progress).

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This coming October, IDGA will be hosting a conference in the Washington D.C. area to address the need for optimal interoperability within our military’s electronic health database.

Over the years, Information Technology (IT) has radically transformed the operations of business and communication and is now making crucial inroads into our military and government healthcare systems, specifically the VA and DOD. While progress has been made in certain areas, the need for an accurate and modernized health-data-transfer system has become paramount. During its two-day conference, IDGA’s Electronic Health Records Summit hopes to foster productive discussion, debate, and networking opportunities to address challenges and create solutions.

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Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fifth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. Read More »