Even as OpenSim implementation continues to grow, a constant remains: there is no viewer tailored specifically for OpenSim as it comes direct from OpenSimulator.org. Read More »

In 2013, every procurement executive will be asking the question: "So why isn't your product using open source software?" Quite an assertion given that open source software is practically excluded from most public and private procurement by its lack of license model. Lets look the rationale to support this assertion. Read More »

Well if you believe that IHE's cross-enterprise document sharing (XDS) open standard is the bees knees, just imagine an open source XDS solution!...This is the future of healthcare - standardised and commoditised infrastructure, which everyone can exploit to build new innovative applications. Read More »

Last Tuesday saw a quiet but extremely important event take place in Vantage House Leeds - the creation of an initial steering group for UK healthcare open source software adoption and development. Read More »

The internet has made it cheaper and easier for elected officials to communicate with their constituents. This made us think: What if cities started using the internet to organize citizen volunteers? If executed properly, we believed this could relieve some of the pressure on government while building stronger local communities. Read More »

Earlier this year, Cook County released “Look at Cook,” a budget visualization tool to help citizens understand how the county spends taxpayer dollars. As the site says, residents “keep asking, ‘Where exactly does our money go?’” Look at Cook attempts to help answer that question with spending breakdowns by area and year... Read More »

The National Association of NGOs in Zimbabwe (NANGO) has launched a social service delivery campaign in Harare for residents to speak on problems they are facing in their neighborhood. The campaign is under the banner ‘sei sei Harare?‘ gives residents an opportunity to be monitors and reporters of the problems in their neighborhood. Read More »

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera launched this Crowdmap within hours of the earthquake that struck eastern Turkey on October, 23, 2011. The crisis map includes information on needs, help facilities and salvage work. Most of the information mapped on the Al Jazeera deployment was sourced from this wordpress blog... Read More »

Technology is reshaping politics. In Morocco, the Internet is largely used by citizens to claim change, organize manifestations and even debate political reforms. Now, using Ushahidi, Moroccans are participating in election monitoring on Marsad.ma (Marsad, in Arabic, means Observatory). Read More »