“We are a major source of design methods, and not only that, we create open source tools, which makes our new design technology widely accessible to the public.”
—Janos Sztipanovits

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Harris Corp. has won a $54.9 million, 5-year contract to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with a surgical workflow management solution. Harris' offering will incorporate the GE Centricity Perioperative Management system. Read More »

The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development are expanding data visualization projects in an effort to promote greater understanding of -- and foster solutions for -- global challenges ranging from hunger to anti-Semitism. Read More »

Mobile Phones will be used to help health professionals collect data, have it analyzed and receive feedback in a show case project to be launched next week in Ethiopia. The project is led by Technology for Change International and is expected to cost approximately 370,000 US dollars. Read More »

Foot soldiers in the war against disease can come from unexpected places. ...Today, of the 4,000-odd people registered with OSDD, a little over half are students, engaged in activities from advocacy to lab work. "It has been a big discovery for us," says OSDD project director Zakir Thomas. "...the students really surprised us." Read More »

The connection seems obvious: nearly 400 acres of land set aside to house veterans and thousands of veterans who need a place to call home. But Los Angeles' estimated 8,000 homeless vets have been barred from living at the sprawling campus for decades...But "beginning with the Vietnam War era, vets were kicked out," said Rosenbaum, who's leading a class-action suit over the property against the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read More »

Ushahidi is honoured to be recognized by the Future Quotient Report of the 50 Stars of Seriously Long-Term Innovation. JWT and Volans conducted a survey of 500 public, private and NGO leaders which showed that over 90% think the ability to think and act with long-term horizons in mind is very important, and 80% see it as getting more important... Read More »

In early 2011 TechChange organized a training with FrontlineSMS that not only taught people how to use the software, but forced them to confront the issue of priorities. Against our tendency to think of ways to use the technology to benefit ourselves, we designed our own projects that used FrontlineSMS to enable social change... Read More »

The Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in IT Education (ACM-SIGITE) met at West Point's Thayer Hotel on the first day of the three-day conference--and free and open source software (FOSS) was one of the top items on the menu. Read More »

Five days of intense book production kicked off today at the FLOSS Manuals sprint, hosted by Google. Four free software projects have each sent three to five volunteers to write books about the projects this week. Along the way we'll all learn about the group writing process and the particular use of book sprints to make documentation for free software. Read More »