Our own John Scott of Radiant Blue explains the Open Technology Development: Lessons Learned paper from the Secretary of Defense. Read More »

Today, representatives from dozens of countries are coming together at the United Nations in New York for the Open Government Partnership...As I believe open data will need to be a centerpiece of that effort and others, I wanted to share some thoughts on the benefits of opening data in a proactive, structured, and engaging way. Read More »

Digital Campus is a not for profit company specializing in technology development in emerging countries...One of their projects is researching ways in which mobile technologies can help to improve maternal and child health care in rural areas of Ethiopia. Read More »

Why do we publish health research? If the editors of PLoS Medicine are correct that “medical journals have many roles, but, above all, dissemination of medical information is key,” then journals need to be accessible to the most important data consumers—frontline health workers. Read More »

The Performance.gov website, launched Thursday as a central repository for information about federal agencies' spending, hiring and cost-cutting initiatives, soon will be the main home for all federal performance websites, a White House official told Nextgov. Read More »

[The VA is] looking for a mobile device management platform to handle security and management for as many as 100,00 smartphones and tablets -- fueling speculation that it intends to acquire that many devices in the short-term...other reports have pointed out that the request for information calls for 20 iPads, 20 Android devices and 20 Windows machines each year. Read More »

Can [your smartphone] detect when you’re feeling under the weather? Anmol Madan explored this question in his thesis at MIT Media Lab. After completing a study that involved more than 320,000 hours of data from research participants’ mobile phones, he was able to model smartphone behaviors that predict the onset of common colds, depression, and influenza. Read More »

A smartphone application that provides multilingual instructions for medications listed on a patient’s electronic medical record or personal health record has been named the winner of the SMART Platform Apps Challenge. Read More »

Africa is struggling. Since the 1970s, Western aid has increasingly turned its focus toward social welfare services, alleviating short-term problems but not supplying Africans with the resources they need to function independently. Africa doesn't just need another meal; it needs the tools to grow from within...Mobile-based technology could be the answer. Read More »

Roger Baker, CIO at the VA, says desktop computers will eventually phase out, as mobile devices become predominant channels for communication and work. That evolution has made plans for ongoing mobile security a priority for organizations that cross every business sector. Read More »